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• n. 管; 電子管; トンネル; テレビ?セット
• vt.チューブにする；チューブに入れる；チューブで運ぶ
• vi. 地下に潜る；落第する

ラテン語のtubus（管、パイプ）が語源。

tube

tube: [17] The ultimate origins of tube are unclear. It comes, probably via French tube, from Latin tubus ‘tube’. This was closely related to tuba ‘war trumpet’, source of English tuba [19], but what their joint ancestor might be is not known.
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tube (n.)

1610s, from Middle French tube (15c.), from Latin tubus "tube, pipe," of unknown origin. The London subway was christened the Twopenny Tube (H.D. Browne, in the "Londoner" of June 30, 1900) before it even opened; tube for "cylindrical railway tunnel" is attested from 1847. The meaning "TV as a medium" is from 1959, short for cathode ray tube or picture tube. Tube top as a women's clothing style is attested from 1972. Tube steak is attested from 1963 as "frankfurter," slang meaning "penis" is recorded by mid-1980s.

1. The only baseball he saw was on the tube .

彼が見た唯一の野球試合はテレビで見た。

2.The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube .

二次電流はチューブ内部に磁場を発生させる。

3.That 's Warwick Road，just opposite Earls Court tube station.

それはウォーリックロードで、伯爵宮地下鉄駅の向こうにあります。

4.He prefers travelling on the Tube to riding in a limousine.

彼は地下鉄に乗って移動したいと思っており、リムジンバスには乗りたくない。

5.I took the tube then the train and came straight here.

私はまず地下鉄に乗って、それから列車でここに直行します。