tub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʌb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

Noun

tub (plural tubs)

1. 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. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

   He added a tub of margarine to the stew.

3. A bathtub.
4. (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.

Derived terms

• bathtub
• hot tub
• tubby

Translations

broad, flat-bottomed vessel

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桶 (cmn) (tǒng), 盆 (cmn) (pén)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: kar (fo) n
• Finnish: saavi (fi)
• French: bassine (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bottich (de) m
• Greek: κάδος (el) (kádos) m
• Hungarian: kád (hu)
• Irish: dabhach (ga) m, umar (ga) m, leastar (ga) m, tobán (ga) m

• Italian: tinozza (it) f, vaschetta (it) f
• Japanese: 桶 (ja) (おけ, oke)
• Jèrriais: toube f
• Khmer: ធុងឈើ (km) (tʰuŋ cʰəə)
• Latvian: kubls (lv) m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: kar (no) n
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: кадка (ru) (kádka) f, бадья (ru) (badʹjá) f, ушат (ru) (ušát) m
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contents or capacity of such a vessel

• Finnish: saavillinen (fi)

• Latvian: kubls (lv) m

bathtub — see bathtub

slow-moving craft

• Finnish: amme (fi), ruuhi (fi)
• French: rafiot (fr) f

• Italian: bagnarola (it) f

Verb

tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)

1. (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.

   to tub a plant

2. (intransitive) To bathe.
   • London Spectator

     Don't we all tub in England?

External links

• Tub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BTU
• but

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Noun

tub m (plural tubs)

1. tube

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Lojban

Rafsi

tub

1. rafsi of tunba.

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tub]

Noun

tub n (plural tuburi)

1. tube

Declension

declension of tub

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un tub	tubul	niște tuburi	tuburile
genitive/dative	unui tub	tubului	unor tuburi	tuburilor