Tube vs. Pipette — What's the Difference?

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

A pipette (sometimes spelled pipet) is a laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry, biology and medicine to transport a measured volume of liquid, often as a media dispenser. Pipettes come in several designs for various purposes with differing levels of accuracy and precision, from single piece glass pipettes to more complex adjustable or electronic pipettes.

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

A narrow, usually calibrated tube into which small amounts of liquid are suctioned for transfer or measurement.

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

(sciences) A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.

(Music) The cylindrical part of a wind instrument.

To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

An electron tube.

A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, - used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

A vacuum tube.

Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the 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