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• tub — [ tʌb ] noun count ▸ 1 bathtub ▸ 2 container ▸ 3 amount a tub contains ▸ 4 short fat person ▸ 5 old boat 1. ) a BATHTUB: get/jump in the tub (=take a bath): Do I have time to get in the tub before we leave? 2. ) a small container with a lid for… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• tub — UK [tʌb] / US noun [countable] Word forms tub : singular tub plural tubs 1) a) a small container with a lid for holding or storing food ice cream tubs tub of: a tub of buttered popcorn b) a large round container made of wood, metal, or plastic… …   English dictionary

• Tub — Tub, n. [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.] 1. 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. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tub fast — Tub Tub, n. [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.] 1. 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tub wheel — Tub Tub, n. [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.] 1. 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tub boat lift — Tub boats are small boats used to transport coal and other minerals, sometimes working singly, sometimes in long trains. When it is required to move them between different elevations of canal, locks, boat lifts and inclined planes have all been… …   Wikipedia

• tub — [tub] n. [ME tubbe < MDu; akin to MLowG tobbe, EFris tubbe] 1. a) a round, broad, open, wooden container, usually formed of staves and hoops fastened around a flat bottom b) any similarly large, open container of metal, stone, etc., as for… …   English World dictionary

• tub — open wooden vessel, late 14c., from M.L.G., M.Du., or M.Flem. tubbe, of uncertain origin. Related to O.H.G. zubar vessel with two handles, wine vessel, Ger. Zuber. Considered to be unrelated to L. tubus (see TUBE (Cf. tube)); one theory connects… …   Etymology dictionary

• tub — /tʌb / (say tub) noun 1. a vessel or receptacle for bathing in; a bathtub. 2. Colloquial a bath in a tub. 3. a broad, round, open, wooden vessel, usually made of staves held together by hoops and fitted around a flat bottom. 4. any of various… …  

• tub — [[t]tʌb[/t]] n. v. tubbed, tub•bing 1) a bathtub 2) a broad, round, open container, orig. one made of wooden staves held together by hoops and fitted around a flat bottom 3) any of various small, usu. round containers: a tub of butter[/ex] 4) the …   From formal English to slang

• tub — n. & v. n. 1 an open flat bottomed usu. round container for various purposes. 2 a tub shaped (usu. plastic) carton. 3 the amount a tub will hold. 4 colloq. a bath. 5 a colloq. a clumsy slow boat. b a stout roomy boat for rowing practice. 6 (in… …   Useful english dictionary