"Tube" meaning in All languages combined

See Tube on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Forms: the Tube [canonical]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=the Tube}} the Tube
  1. (informal) The London Underground Tags: informal Categories (topical): Nicknames, Rail transportation Categories (place): London Derived forms: tube train Translations (informal: the London underground): 倫敦地鐵 (Chinese Mandarin), 伦敦地铁 (Lúndūn dìtiě) (Chinese Mandarin), metro [masculine] (Dutch), metro (Finnish), Lontoon metro (Finnish), le métro londonien [masculine] (French), U-Bahn [feminine] (German), Untergrundbahn [feminine] (German), Metro [feminine] (German), metró (Hungarian), la metropolitana di Londra [feminine] (Italian), チューブ (chūbu) (Japanese), ロンドン地下鉄 (Rondon chikatetsu) (Japanese), londyńskie metro (Polish), ло́ндонское метро́ (lóndonskoje metró) [neuter] (Russian), metro [masculine] (Spanish), mrija (Swahili)

Noun [German]

Audio: De-Tube.ogg
Etymology: Borrowed from English tube. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|de|en|tube|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} English tube, {{bor+|de|en|tube}} Borrowed from English tube Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Tube f (genitive Tube, plural Tuben) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Tube [genitive], Tuben [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Tube [nominative, singular], Tuben [definite, nominative, plural], Tube [genitive, singular], Tuben [definite, genitive, plural], Tube [dative, singular], Tuben [dative, definite, plural], Tube [accusative, singular], Tuben [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. tube (container) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Tube-de-noun-WkS8Agam
  2. Fallopian tube Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Tube-de-noun-O-5aGye8 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Zahnpastatube [feminine]

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.