'TUB' definitions:
Definition of 'tub'
(from WordNet)
noun
A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body [syn: bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tub]
noun
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn: tub, vat]
noun
The amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water" [syn: tub, tubful]
Definition of 'Tub'
From: GCIDE
- Tub \Tub\, v. i. To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Don't we all tub in England ? --London Spectator. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tub'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Tub'
From: GCIDE
- 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 Webster]
- 2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. [1913 Webster]
- All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. [1913 Webster]
- Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] --Shak.
- Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tub'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aquamanile,
- argosy,
- auto,
- autocar,
- automatic dishwasher,
- automobile,
- baptize,
- bark,
- basin,
- bath,
- bathe,
- bathtub,
- bidet,
- blimp,
- boat,
- bottom,
- bowl,
- bucket,
- buggy,
- bus,
- car,
- catch basin,
- cereal bowl,
- cistern,
- cold shower,
- craft,
- crate,
- dishpan,
- dishwasher,
- douche,
- dumpling,
- ewer,
- fatty,
- finger bowl,
- Finnish bath,
- flush,
- flush out,
- gargle,
- gravy boat,
- heap,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hip bath,
- hippo,
- holystone,
- hooker,
- hulk,
- hull,
- hummum,
- irrigate,
- jalopy,
- Japanese bath,
- keel,
- kitchen sink,
- lather,
- launder,
- lavabo,
- lavatory,
- lave,
- leviathan,
- lump,
- machine,
- mop,
- mop up,
- motor,
- motor vehicle,
- motorcar,
- motorized vehicle,
- needle bath,
- packet,
- piscina,
- plunge bath,
- porringer,
- potbelly,
- punch bowl,
- rinse,
- rinse out,
- ritually immerse,
- roly-poly,
- Russian bath,
- salad bowl,
- sauce boat,
- sauna,
- sauna bath,
- scour,
- scrub,
- scrub up,
- shampoo,
- ship,
- shower,
- shower bath,
- shower curtain,
- shower head,
- shower room,
- shower stall,
- showers,
- sink,
- sitz bath,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- soap,
- sponge,
- sponge bath,
- swab,
- swagbelly,
- sweat bath,
- Swedish bath,
- syringe,
- terrine,
- toivel,
- trough,
- tub of lard,
- tun,
- tureen,
- Turkish bath,
- vat,
- vessel,
- voiture,
- wash,
- wash barrel,
- wash boiler,
- wash out,
- wash up,
- washbasin,
- washbowl,
- washdish,
- washer,
- washing machine,
- washing pot,
- washpot,
- washstand,
- washtub,
- watercraft,
- wheels,
- whirlpool bath,
- wreck
Acronyms for 'tub'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Technische Universitaet Berlin (org.)