tub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
business
mining
nautical
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.
Inflected forms:
form: tubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
pos: noun
examples: He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
gloss: The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
gloss: A bathtub.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A slow-moving craft.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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.
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 designated by some of the less-kind officers as the "Sink-by-Themselves Squadron".
gloss: Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
examples: All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.
gloss: A small cask.
pos: noun
examples: a tub of gin
gloss: Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
pos: noun
gloss: A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth
To the tub-fast and the diet
gloss: A corpulent or obese person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Every street or race car McLaren has built since 1981 uses a carbon fiber tub. Now, McLaren will make them in-house.
gloss: To plant, set, or store in a tub.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to tub a plant
gloss: To bathe in a tub.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: February 1, 1873, Meredith Townsend and Richard Holt Hutton (editors), "Change of Air and Scene", in The Spectator
Don't we all "tub" in England?
Derived words: 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
tub-fast
tubfast
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
tub-thumping
tubthumping
tub wheel
twin tub
washtub
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