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チューブ (chuubu) Japanese meaning: tube | Kotomora
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Related words パイプ usually refers to a rigid pipe, while チューブ is flexible and can be a collapsible container like a toothpaste tube.
ホース is a flexible hose used for liquids or gases and is usually larger in diameter than a チューブ.
チューブ refers to a flexible tube like a toothpaste container, whereas 管 usually denotes a rigid, cylindrical pipe.
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The toothpaste tube is empty.
This tube is used for water pipes.
I squeezed the tube hard to use every last bit.
〈 物もの 〉 をチューブに 入い れる to put something into a tube (container)
I carry the cream around in a tube.
チューブ is a loanword for flexible tubes like toothpaste or paint containers, whereas 管 can describe rigid or flexible conduits and is used more technically.
Counted with For long, thin objects (sticks, stems, wires, bottles); also 'pieces' like films, articles, and phone calls.
Counter for tubes and pipes (also flutes).
Etymology Borrowed from English 'tube'.
