Cylindrical vs. Tube — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or having the shape of a cylinder, especially of a circular cylinder.

A hollow cylinder, especially one that conveys a fluid or functions as a passage.

(Mathematics) Of or relating to the coordinate system, or to any of three coordinates in it, formed by two polar coordinates in a plane and a rectangular coordinate measured perpendicularly from the plane.

An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct

Shaped like a cylinder.

A small flexible cylindrical container sealed at one end and having a screw cap at the other, for pigments, toothpaste, or other pastelike substances.

(cartography) Describing a map projection in which meridians are mapped onto vertical lines and parallels of latitude onto horizontal lines.

(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

Having the form of a cylinder or tube

An electron tube.

Related to or having the shape or properties of a cylinder

A vacuum tube.

(Botany) The lower, cylindrical part of a gamopetalous corolla or a gamosepalous calyx.

A tunnel.

An underground railroad system, especially the one in London, England.

The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.

An inner tube.

An inflatable tube or cushion made of rubber or plastic and used for recreational riding, as behind a motor boat or down a snow-covered slope.

Television

A television set.

Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.

To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.

To place in or enclose in a tube.

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

(obsolete) One of the tubular tunnels of the London Underground.

A tin can containing beer.

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

An idiot.

(transitive) To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

To ride an inner tube.

To intubate.

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A telescope.

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

A hollow cylindrical shape

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

Electric underground railway

Provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Convey in a tube;

Ride or float on an inflated tube;

Place or enclose in a tube