Hose vs. Tube — What's the Difference?

A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes (the word pipe usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally tubing.

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

A flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly for watering plants and in firefighting

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

Stockings, socks, and tights (especially in commercial use)

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

Water or spray with a hose

(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

Pl. hose Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.

An electron tube.

Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.

A vacuum tube.

Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.

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

Pl. hos·es A flexible tube for conveying liquids or gases under pressure.

A tunnel.

To water, drench, or wash with a hose

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

To attack and kill (someone), typically by use of a firearm:

The elongated space inside a wave when it is breaking.

To exploit, cheat, or defraud.

An inner tube.

(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

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.

(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

Television

(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

A television set.

(transitive) To water or spray with a hose.

Tubes(Informal) The fallopian tubes.

(transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.

To provide with a tube; insert a tube in.

(transitive) To deliver using a hose.

To place in or enclose in a tube.

(transitive) To provide with hose garment

To ride or float on an inflated tube for recreation.

(transitive) To trick or deceive.

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.

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

To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

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.)

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

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

Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

A tin can containing beer.

A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.

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

Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)

A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.

Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet

An idiot.

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

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

Water with a hose;

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