Definitions for tub

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tub tub

Spelling: [tuhb]

IPA: /tʌb/

Tub is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in tub (btu).

Definitions for tub

noun

1. a bathtub.
2. a broad, round, open, wooden container, usually made of staves held together by hoops and fitted around a flat bottom.
3. any of various containers resembling or suggesting a tub:
4. the amount a tub will hold.
5. Informal. a short and fat person.
6. Nautical. an old, slow, or clumsy vessel.
7. British Informal. a bath in a bathtub.
8. Mining. an ore car; tram.
9. Military Slang. a two-seat aircraft, especially a trainer.

verb (used with object)

1. to place or keep in a tub.
2. British Informal. to bathe in a bathtub.

verb (used without object)

1. British Informal. to bathe oneself in a bathtub.
2. Informal. to undergo washing, especially without damage, as a fabric:

Origin of tub

1350-1400; Middle English tubbe (noun) Middle Dutch tobbe; cognate with Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe

Examples for tub

It should be packed closely into the tub, and pressed down hard.

Let it ferment for three days in a tub covered with a double blanket.

On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

My partner got in the “tub” first and I leaned back on her so she could give me the old reacharound.

Until recently, with global demand soaring for oil, gas, and minerals, thumping the tub against imperialism played well at home.

I have taken the champagne for granted, and it's cooling now in a tub somewhere.

A heavy trowel is used to retrieve a mass of your chosen kind of ice cream from its tub and put it in the cardboard container.

The first mound that I encountered belonged to a goblin who was splashing in his tub.

So they went bobbing about in a tub, and we, with a like paucity of equipment, essayed to follow them.

The tub used in the birth was not approved for medical use and is difficult to disinfect.