tub

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch, or Middle Low German tubbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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.

Tub of cottage cheese, lid, and lidding film

1. 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.
5. (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
   • South

     All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

6. A small cask.

   a tub of gin

7. Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
8. (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
9. (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

10. (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
    • 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic (page 139)

      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.

Derived terms

• bathtub
• hot tub
• tubby

Translations

broad, flat-bottomed vessel

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: kuvo
• Faroese: kar 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: (small, e.g. for icecream) Dose (de); (large, e.g. for washing or flowers) Kübel (de) m, Bottich (de) m
• Greek: κάδος (el) m (kádos)
• Hungarian: kád (hu)
• Irish: dabhach m, umar m, leastar m, tobán m
• Italian: tinozza (it) f, vaschetta (it) f, contenitore (it) m

• Japanese: 桶 (ja) (おけ, oke)
• Khmer: ធុងឈើ (tʰuŋ cʰəə)
• Latin: linter f
• Latvian: kubls (lv) m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: toube f
• Norwegian: kar (no) n
• Portuguese: tina (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ка́дка (ru) f (kádka), бадья́ (ru) f (badʹjá), уша́т (ru) m (ušát), коры́то (ru) n (korýto)
• Slovak: kaďa
• Spanish: cuba (es) f, tina (es) f
• Yiddish: ביט‎‎ m (bit)

contents or capacity of such a vessel

• Finnish: saavillinen

• Latvian: kubls (lv) m

bathtub — see bathtub

slow-moving craft

• Finnish: amme (fi), ruuhi (fi)
• French: rafiot (fr) m
• Irish: leastar m, pota m

• Italian: bagnarola f
• Russian: посудина (ru) f (posudina)

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?

Further reading

• tub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BTU, TBU, but, but-

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtup/

Noun

tub m (plural tubs)

1. tube

Related terms

• tubular

Further reading

• “tub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Juba Arabic

Noun

tub

1. brick

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Kavalan

Noun

tub

1. lid

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tub]

Noun

tub n (plural tuburi)

1. tube

Declension

declension of tub

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tub	tubul	(niște) tuburi	tuburile
genitive/dative	(unui) tub	tubului	(unor) tuburi	tuburilor
vocative	tubule		tuburilor

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White Hmong

Noun

tub

1. son

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)