tub
/tʌb/
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Ireland/tʊb/
tub noun: a flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
Noun
tub (plural tubs)
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
- A bathtub.
- Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse, page 27
- A slow-moving craft.
- The rest of the evening we had a fine west wind, which carried us on at near five knots an hour, as much as our lumbering old tub can possibly go.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 166
- But, with any ships in the Baltic Fleet that were worth sending - and some that probably weren't worth sending anyway - having already been dispatched, this gave him the perfect excuse to start rounding up old, obsolete vessels which had been rejected in the first place as being old tubs and...2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 24:52 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022
- Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
- A small cask.
- a tub of gin
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.1958 September, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613
- A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
- tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth
To the tub-fast and the dietc. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth
- A corpulent or obese person.
- Donald tells him to be more realistic. Take those two girls over there, for example. One's a zitface and the other's a tub, so they'd be perfect for them.2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, page 139
- The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- Every street or race car McLaren has built since 1981 uses a carbon fiber tub. Now, McLaren will make them in-house.2017 February 10, Máté Petrány, McLaren Will Start Building its Own Carbon Fiber Tubs, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2023
Verb
tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)
tub meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tub in Hindi
- टब
tub in Tamil
- தொட்டி
tub in Urdu
- ٹب
More languagesFewer languages
- tub in Bengali
- টব, গামলা, ডাবা, স্নানের ঘর
- tub in Telugu
- తొట్టి toṭṭi
- tub in Malayalam
- മരത്തൊട്ടി, തോണി, ചെറുവീപ്പ
- tub in Kannada
- ತೊಟ್ಟಿ
- tub in Punjabi
- ਟੱਬ
- tub in Gujarati
- ટબ
- tub in Odia
- ଟବ୍, ଟବ
- tub in Nepali
- टब
- tub in Persian
- تغار taġâr
Examples of tub in a sentence
- Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.
- An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.
- This tub is filled with the pickle that we will put the small cucumbers into.
Forms of tub
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tubs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tubs |
| present participle | tubbing |
| past participle | tubbed |
| past | tubbed |
Origin of tub
From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.
Words formed from tub
- bathing tub
- bathtub
- bran tub
- cat in the meal-tub
- dolly tub
- harness tub
- hog-tub
- hot tub
- leachtub
- line tub
- powdering tub
- rum tub
- slack tub
- swilltub
- swill-tub
- Tap-tub
- tubbable
- tubber
- tubbish
- tubby
- tub chair
- tubfast
- tub-fast
- tub file
- tubful
- tub-gig
- tub gurnard
- tubless
- tublet
- tublike
- tubmaker
- tubmaking
- tubman
- tub of guts
- tub of lard
- tub-shower
- tubside
- tub-thump
- tubthumper
- tubthumping
- tub-thumping
- tub wheel
- twin tub
- washtub
Phrases with tub
- hog tub
- bath tub
- wash tub
- tub files
- tub chairs
- tub wheels
- powd'rn tub
- powdrin tub
- powdring tub
- tub gurnards
- poudringe tub
- powd'ring tub
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Words that rhyme with tub
Questions about tub
- What does tub mean?
- Tub means a flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- What is tub in Hindi?
- Tub in Hindi is टब. See Tub meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tub?
- Tub can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tub?
- Tub is pronounced /tʌb/.
- What is the plural of tub?
- The plural of tub is tubs.
Words near tub in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tub (page history and authors); tub (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tub (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tub (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tub (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tub (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); తొట్టి (Telugu) (page history and authors); tub (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tub (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tub (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tub (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tub (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tub (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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