Tub

Definition: Tub

Tub

Noun

1. A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body.

2. A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids.

3. The amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Transportation

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Synonyms: Tub

Deception

Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house.

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Dissuasion

Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery).

Receptacle

Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen.

Crosswords: Tub

Albanian (conduit, duct, fistula, pipe, pole, tube, tubing), French (shower, washtub), Romanian (canal, ear trumpet, pipe, tube, tubing), Swedish (telescope, tube).

Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I'm a genuine countess with a lot of dough, and if that's your wife she's a tub of guts (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.)

Sure, we can rent a tub. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Well, no woman ever died from that. A tub of hot water and I'll be back where I was before - with just another filthy memory (C'era una volta il West; writing credit: Dario Argento; Bernardo Bertolucci)

Someone or something just tried to drown me in a tub of blood, the size of a Buick (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe)

No redwood hot tub to my name (I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Hot tub bubbles surrounding me (One Of Those Days; performing artist: Whitney Houston; writing credit: Kevin Briggs, Patrice Stewart, Dwight Reynolds, Ernest Isley, Marvin Isley, Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Christopher Jasper, Warren Zevon & David Lindell)

A Tub Named Desire (1956)

Three Men in a Tub (1938)

Tub Cleaners (1926)

Bath Tub Perils (1916)

Tub Race (1898)

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Books

• A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics) (reference)

• Just Me in the Tub (Golden Look-Look Books) (reference)

• No More Water in the Tub! (Picture Puffins) (reference)

• The Tub People's Christmas (reference)

• Tub People (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Complete Guide to Spa & Hot Tub Care (reference)

• Kidbrilliant Learning & Fun in the Tub (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Interact 100-Count Tub of Cleaning Wipes (62034) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Tidy Kids Storage Tub - Red (reference)

• Sure Comfort Tub - Deluxe (reference)

• Especially for Baby - Ultra Soft Cloth - Scented Natural Aloe - 160 Count Tub (reference)

• Gatco 1414 Expandable Arm Tub Tray with Brass Finish (reference)

• Fold-Up Tub (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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(1) color slide shows a small, open, tub of soft Philadelphia brand cream cheese, with a knife in the cream cheese. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Articles of whale-boat gear. 1. Lantern keg containing matches, bread,&c. 2 Boat compass. 3. Water keg. 4. Piggin for bailing water 5. Waif for signaling. 6. Tub oar crotch. 7. Double oar-lock 8. Large line in line-tub. 9. Knife to cut line. 10 Row-lock. 11. Hatchet 12. Grapnel. 13. Drag or drug to retard whale. 14. Canvas nipper. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

George Washington University Hospital, Washington, D.C. : Hydrotherapy Tub. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Great Britain, British Red Cross Society South African Hospital, London, England. : Interior of bath tub ward for septic wounds. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Look over the edge of a 20mm gun tub, while inspecting shipping at Pearl Harbor just prior to the Gilberts Operation, circa October 1943. Army Brigadier General H.B. Holmes is immediately behind them, wearing a garrison cap. Note gun training limit bar and gun crew in flashproof clothing. Credit: NAVY.

Mess Attendants manning a 20mm machine gun, in a gun tub beside the flight deck, 9 September 1942. The carrier was then en route from Alameda, California, to the southwest Pacific. Credit: NAVY.

Tub parade, Lenox. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dr. Grover Cleveland and "Dr. German" look at man who has his feet in tub of hot water. Credit: Library of Congress.

Illustrated arithmetic problem showing man stamping on fruit in rectangular tub and man standing in round tub, with mathematical equations and surrounding text. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman washing in tub. Credit: Library of Congress.

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There you are not in the tub.

But before Ma ate, she put the big round wash tub on the stove and started the fire to roaring

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Health

Take showers instead of tub baths. (references)

Warm tub or sitz baths several times a day in plain, warm water for about 10 minutes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tub": bath tub ♦ bathing tub ♦ Diogenes' tub ♦ dolly tub ♦ French tub ♦ harness tub ♦ hot tub ♦ Leach tub ♦ let every tub stand on its bottom ♦ Line tub ♦ Mashing tub ♦ match tub ♦ old tub ♦ plum tub ♦ powdering tub ♦ seasoning tub ♦ tub fast ♦ tub gurnard ♦ tub thumper ♦ tub wheel ♦ wash tub ♦ wooden tub. Additional references.

Beginning with "tub": tub-cart, tub-garden, tub-like, tub-shaped, tub-sized, tub-sizing, tub-thumper, tub-thumping, tub-water.

Ending with "tub": bath-tub.

Afrikaans

bak (bake, basin, bowl, box, container, fry, jug, pelvis, vat, vessel). (various references)

Albanian

vaskë (bath, bathtub, John, pool, tank, vat), legen (basin, hip, Laver, pelvis, toiletware, washbowl), kazan (boiler, caldron, cauldron, copper, fleshpot, kettle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حمام (bath, bathroom, douche, rest room, shower, water closet), ‏حوض غسيل الملابس, ‏حوض المراكب, ‏حوض إستحمام, ‏حوض (basin, cistern, dock, lavatory, pan, pelvis, receptacle, tank, trough), ‏إستحم (bathe, shower, swim), ‏أصيص (pot). (various references)

Bulgarian 

учебна гребна лодка, упражнявам се в гребане, слагам в каче, разсаждам растение в каче, шахтова вагонетка, къпя се във вана, каче (kit), каца (barrel), ведро (pail), нареждам в каче, баня (bath, bathroom). (various references)

Chinese 

木盆, 杅 (bowl). (various references)

Czech

vana (bath, bath tub, bathtub), vìdro (bucket, pail), putna, okov, koupat se ve vanì (bath), káï (butt, Tun, vat), díže (kneading trough), beèka (Tun), škopek. (various references)

Danish

kar (vat). (various references)

Dutch

tobbe (vat), kuip (vat), teil (vat), bak (box, chest, cistern, container, ferry, gag, joke, jug, manger, tank, trough, vat, vessel). (various references)

Esperanto

kuvo (vat). (various references)

Faeroese

kar (vat). (various references)

Farsi 

هرچیزی بشکل تغاهر, وان (Bath), حمام فرنگی (Bath), تغارچوبی , تغاررخت شوءی , طشت , شسته شدن (Launder), شستشوکردن (Bath, Bathe, Lave, Washout). (various references)

Finnish

saavi (bucket). (various references)

French

cuve (tube), baquet, benne. (various references)

Frisian

boaits (vat). (various references)

German

Zuber (cowl, vat, washtub), Wanne (bath, bathtub, oil pan, reservoir, sump, trough, vat), Kübel (bucket, container, Crapper, latrine bucket, pail, tubs), Bottich (vat), Bütte (vat). (various references)

Greek 

σαπιοκάραβο. (various references)

Hebrew 

עביט (night pot, vessel), גגית (bucket, pail, vat, washtub). (various references)

Hungarian

kád (tank, vat), dézsa (bin, vat). (various references)

Indonesian

mimbar (dais, podium, pulpit, tribune), memandikan (bathe), mandi (bath, bathe, bathing, dip, lave), berlatih (exercise, rehearse), bak mandi. (various references)

Irish

dabhach (vat). (various references)

Italian

tino (Tun, vat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

風呂桶 (bath tub), 空焚き (heating a pan or bath tub without water in it), 盤台 (oval tub or tray used in fish shops), 匱 (chest, coffer, rice tub), 湯に漬かる (to have a dip in the bath tub), 流し場 (place for showering next to a tub). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ながしば (place for showering next to a tub), ひつ (chest, coffer, head, rice tub, roll of cloth, small animal counter), ふろおけ (bath tub), ばんだい (a watch stand, a watcher's seat, all generations, eternity, oval tub or tray used in fish shops, thousands of years), からだき (heating a pan or bath tub without water in it), ゆにつかる (to have a dip in the bath tub), き (10th in rank, 6th in rank, chest, chronicle, coffer, crude, deed, lean on, mood, period, plan, pure, raw, rest against, rice tub, rule, season, season word or phrase, sixth sign of the Chinese calendar, skill, spirit, table, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar, that, timber, time, tree, undiluted, wood, yellow). (various references)

Korean 

통. (various references)

Manx

tubbag (bushel, peck), doagh (cistern, tank, trough; a huge woman, tun, vat), buckad. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubtay.(various references)

Portuguese

tina (dripping-pan, pan, tray, trough, vat), cuba (Cuba, trough, vat). (various references)

Romanian

tocitoare, vanã (penstock), vagonet (box, carriage, lorry, tram, trolley, truck), vadrã (bucket, kit, pail), scaldã (vat), hârdãu (bucket), cuvã (box, pail, vat), ciubãr (kit, pail, vat), cadã (bath, kit, pan, vat), albie (bed, bottom, channel, layer, pan, river bed, sow, tray, trough). (various references)

Romany

balùy. (various references)

Russian 

ванна (bath, bathtub, bath-tub, laboratory, puddle, vat). (various references)

Scottish

measair (a tub), ballan (a vessel, wooden domestic vessel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spor brod, kupanje u kadi (bath), kada (bathtub, when), kaca (vat), kabao. (various references)

Spanish

balde (bucket, for free, for nothing, free of charge, pail), bañera (bath, bathtub). (various references)

Swedish

kar (vat), balja (bowl, dolly tub, Hull, pod, scabbard, sheath). (various references)

Turkish

tekne (back, boat, bottom, glider, Hull, ship, trough, vat, vessel), yayıkta yapmak, yayık (butter churn, churn, prolate), varil (barrel, cask, keg, vat), küvet (bath, bathtub), kürek çekmek (go boating, oar, paddle, pull, pull oar, row, scull), fıçıya dikmek, fıçı (barrel, barreled, barrelled, cask, keg, tap, vat, wood), dekovil (narrow-gauge railroad, tram), banyo yapmak (bathe, take a bath). (various references)

Ukrainian

саджати рослину у діжку, цебер (skep), купати у ванні, ванна (balneum, bath, bath room, bath tub, vat), балія (washtub), діжка. (various references)

Vietnamese 

chậu (earthenware, pot, vessel). (various references)

Welsh

twb, cerwyn (vat, winepress), celwrn (bucket, pail). (various references)

alvei, alveo, alveos, alveum, alveus, cupa, lacus. (various references)

byden. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tub": tuba, tubae, tubaist, tubaists, tubal, tubas, tubate, tubbable, tubbed, tubber, tubbers, tubbier, tubbiest, tubbing, tubby, tube, tubed, tubeless, tubelike, tubenose, tubenoses, tuber, tubercle, tubercles, tubercular, tuberculars, tuberculate, tuberculated, tuberculin, tuberculins, tuberculoid, tuberculoses, tuberculosis, tuberculous, tuberoid, tuberose, tuberoses, tuberosities, tuberosity, tuberous, tubers, tubes, tubework, tubeworks, tubful, tubfuls, tubifex, tubifexes, tubificid, tubificids, tubiform. (additional references)

Words ending with "tub": bathtub, paystub, stub, washtub. (additional references)

Words containing "tub": antitubercular, antituberculosis, antituberculous, bathtubs, blowtube, blowtubes, drawtube, drawtubes, extubate, extubated, extubates, extubating, flashtube, flashtubes, intubate, intubated, intubates, intubating, intubation, intubations, microtubular, microtubule, microtubules, paystubs, phototube, phototubes, protuberance, protuberances, protuberant, protuberantly, pseudotuberculoses, pseudotuberculosis, saxtuba, saxtubas, stubbed, stubbier, stubbiest, stubbily, stubbing, stubble, stubbled, stubbles, stubblier, stubbliest, stubbly, stubborn, stubborner, stubbornest, stubbornly, stubbornness, stubbornnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atub, Atubo, eub, taub, tauv, tbc, tbd, tbw, teb, thub, tib, Tibb, tibc, tiby, tibz, tju, Tjuo, toab, tob, tobi, toib, toub, trub, tsubo, tu, tua, Tubb, tubbo, tubi, tubu, tuby, tuc, tud, tuf, tuh, tui, tuj, tuk, tul, tumb, tuq, turb, tus, tuu, tuv, tuw, Tuy, Tvu, tyb, zub. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: but.

-1 letter: ut.

+1 letter: abut, bhut, bout, brut, bunt, bust, bute, buts, butt, stub, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs.

+2 letters: about, abuts, battu, beaut, bhuts, bluet, blunt, blurt, bouts, bruit, brunt, brute, built, bundt, bunts, buret, burnt, burst, busts, busty, butch, buteo, butes, butle, butte, butts, butty, butut, butyl, cubit, debut, doubt, outby, rebut, stubs, tabun, tabus, thumb, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas, tubby, tubed, tuber, tubes, turbo.