Definitions for tub
tʌbtub

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tubnoun

   a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

2. tub, vatnoun

   a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

3. tub, tubfulnoun

   the amount that a tub will hold

   "a tub of water"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tubnoun

   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.

2. tubnoun

   The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

   He added a tub of margarine to the stew.

3. tubnoun

   A bathtub.

4. tubnoun

   A slow-moving craft.

5. tubverb

   To pack or store something in a tub.

6. tubverb

   To bathe.

   Don't we all tub in England? uE000177423uE001 London Spectator.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TUBnoun

   Etymology: tobbe, tubbe, Dutch.

   1. A large open vessel of wood.

   In the East Indies, if you set a tub of water open in a room where cloves are kept, it will be drawn dry in twenty-four hours. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 78.

   They fetch their precepts from the Cynick tub. John Milton.

   Skilful coopers hoop their tubs
   With Lydian and with Phrygian dubs. Hudibras.

   2. A state of salivation. I know not well why so called.

   Season the slaves
   For tubs and baths, bring down the rose-cheek’d youth
   To th’ tub-fast, and the diet. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

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1. tub

   A tub is a large, open, typically round container, often used for holding liquids or an individual's immersion in water such as for bathing. It can also refer to a smaller, often square or rectangular container, used for storing or carrying various items or substances.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tubnoun

   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

2. Tubnoun

   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

3. Tubnoun

   any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously

4. Tubnoun

   a sweating in a tub; a tub fast

5. Tubnoun

   a small cask; as, a tub of gin

6. Tubnoun

   a box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners

7. Tubverb

   to plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant

8. Tub

   to make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TUB

   Tubby protein homolog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUB gene. This gene encodes a member of the Tubby family of bipartite transcription factors. The encoded protein may play a role in obesity and sensorineural degradation. The crystal structure has been determined for a similar protein in mouse, and it functions as a membrane-bound transcription regulator that translocates to the nucleus in response to phosphoinositide hydrolysis. Two transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been identified for this gene.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tub

   tub, n. a two-handed open wooden vessel: a vessel made of staves and hoops: a small cask: anything like a tub: the quantity a tub holds: (slang) a pulpit: a clumsy boat: a receptacle for bathing water: the act of bathing in a tub.—v.t. to set, to bathe, in a tub.—v.i. to take a bath in a tub.—n. Tub′bing, the art of, or the material for, making tubs: in mining, a method of keeping out the water in sinking a shaft in watery ground: a tub-bath: rowing in clumsy boats.—adjs. Tub′bish, round and fat; Tub′by, sounding like an empty tub: dull: wanting elasticity of sound: round like a tub.—ns. Tub′-fast (Shak.) a process of treating venereal disease by sweating in a hot tub; Tub′ful, as much as a tub will hold; Tub′-gig, a Welsh car; Tub′-thump′er (slang), a ranting preacher; Tub′-wheel, a kind of bowl-shaped water-wheel like the turbine, with spiral flanges at the exterior. [Low Ger. tubbe; Dut. tobbe.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tub

   A type of product.

   The tub of icecream was affordable.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

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1. TUB

   What does TUB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TUB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Containerful
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1. but

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tub in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tub in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of tub in a Sentence

1. James McCann:

   Powell's job at the moment is like trying to turn a cruise ship in a bath tub. He has very little room for maneuver and wants to avoid any sharp turns at the risk of unsettling markets.

2. Philip Tierno:

   Keep in mind there’s a [film] that forms over time in the tub and that holds organisms.

3. David Burnett:

   What killed Chase was the synthetic cannabinoid poisoning, the marijuana. The chemicals that were sprayed onto the leaves shut his lungs down. He suffered a violent death. He asphyxiated and suffocated, and he obviously became unconscious... and I found him in the hot tub.

4. Alison Smidt:

   I honestly try and keep the ‘do not disturb’ sign on as long as I'm there to not have a guilty conscience about not tipping, i just don't feel I need my bed made every day, or my bathmat placed back on the side of the tub.

5. Patti Herring:

   We ran in the bathroom, got down in the tub and covered over with some towels and then in about two minutes it was all over.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tub
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tub
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=tub
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tub
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tub
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=tub