Tub

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.
  • n. The amount that such a vessel can hold.
  • n. The contents of such a vessel.
  • n. A bathtub.
  • n. Informal A bath taken in a bathtub.
  • n. Informal A wide, clumsy, slow-moving boat.
  • n. A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.
  • n. A coal car used in a mine.
  • v. To pack or store in a tub.
  • v. To wash or bathe in a tub.
  • verb-intransitive. To take a bath.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
  • n. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
  • n. A bathtub.
  • n. A slow-moving craft.
  • v. To pack or store something in a tub.
  • v. To bathe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
  • n. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity.
  • n. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.
  • n. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
  • n. A small cask.
  • n. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
  • v. To plant or set in a tub.
  • verb-intransitive. To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n.
  • n. An open wooden vessel made of staves, held together by hoops, surrounding a bottom: as, a wash-tub; a butter-tub; the tub in which the tow-line is coiled in a whale-boat.
  • n. The contents of a tub; as much as a tub will hold; as a measure of capacity, sometimes erroneously confounded with firkin.
  • n. Any wooden structure shaped like or resembling a tub.
  • n. A clumsy, slow boat or vessel: so called in contempt.
  • n. A boat used for practice-rowing.
  • n. A small cask for holding liquor, especially in the eighteenth century, and before the change in English revenue laws; such a cask in which brandy, gin, or the like was smuggled from the Continent.
  • n. A receptacle for water or other liquid for bathing the person. See bath-tub.
  • n. Hence, the act or process of bathing in a tub; specifically, a sponge-bath taken while standing in a tub.
  • n. Sweating in a heated tub, formerly the common mode of treatment of lues venerea. Compare powderiug-tub, 2.
  • n. In mining:
  • n. A bucket for raising ore from a mine.
  • n. A box, wagon, or tram for conveying coal from the working-face to the pit-bottom or gangway, or for underground haulage in general.
  • n. Same as keeve.
  • n. The top of a malt-kiln.
  • n. The gurnet.
  • To plant or set in a tub: as, to tub plants.
  • To bathe in a tub or bath.
  • In mining, to line (a shaft) with a casing of wood or iron. See tubbing.
  • To bathe or wash the person in a bathing-tub; especially, in colloquial use, to take the morning bath.
  • To row in a tub; practise in a tub. See tub, n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the amount that a tub will hold
  • n. a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
  • n. a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
  • Verb Form
    tubbed    tubbing    tubs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    tubbed    tubbing    bathtub    hot tub    tubby   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bathe   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cub    Hub    bub    chubb    club    cub    drub    dub    grub    hub   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bucket    basin    bowl    bath    jar    container    pan    kettle    basket    mug