Rhymes with cube
cube
C c One-syllable rhymes
- boob — A woman's boobs are her breasts.
- lube — lubricant.
- rube — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
Two-syllable rhymes
- boob tube — The boob tube is the television.
- sieve tube — a vertical series of sieve cells in the phloem, specialized for the conduction of food materials.
Three-syllable rhymes
- acorn tube — a small vacuum tube shaped like an acorn
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- geiger tube — a tube functioning as an ionization chamber within a Geiger counter.
- inner tube — a doughnut-shaped, flexible rubber tube inflated inside a tire to bear the weight of a vehicle.
- picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
- vacuum tube — Also called, especially British, vacuum valve. an electron tube from which almost all air or gas has been evacuated: formerly used extensively in radio and electronics.
- x-ray tube — an electronic tube for producing x-rays, essentially a cathode-ray tube in which a metal target is bombarded with high-energy electrons.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
- venturi tube — a device for measuring the flow of a fluid, consisting of a tube with a short, narrow center section and widened, tapered ends, so that a fluid flowing through the center section at a higher velocity than through an end section creates a pressure differential that is a measure of the flow of the fluid.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures