Wiktionary

tub

See also: tüb

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: tŭb, IPA(key): /tʌb/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌb

Noun edit

tub (plural tubs)

 
Tub of cottage cheese, lid, and lidding film
  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.
    She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
  3. A bathtub.
    • 1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse, page 27:
      Teach me to love my morning tub, / In waters cold to splash and rub; / O, grant my Turkish towel may flood / Its virtues through my soul and blood.
  4. (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
    • 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 24:52 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned‎[1], archived from the original on 15 October 2022:
      But, with any ships in the Baltic Fleet that were worth sending - and some that probably weren't worth sending anyway - having already been dispatched, this gave him the perfect excuse to start rounding up old, obsolete vessels which had been rejected in the first place as being old tubs and designated by some of the less-kind officers as the "Sink-by-Themselves Squadron".
  5. (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
      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.
  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 edit

Translations edit

bathtub — see bathtub

Verb edit

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. (transitive, intransitive) To bathe in a tub.
    • February 1, 1873, Meredith Townsend and Richard Holt Hutton (editors), "Change of Air and Scene", in The Spectator
      Don't we all "tub" in England?

References edit

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tub”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tub m (plural tubs)

  1. tube

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Green Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Vietnamese tử, from Middle Chinese 子 (t͡sɨX, “son, child”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tub

  1. son
  2. child
  3. (slang) kid

Juba Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tub

  1. brick

References edit

  • Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎[2], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 25

Kavalan edit

Noun edit

tub

  1. lid

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French tube, Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tub n (plural tuburi)

  1. tube
    Synonym: țeavă

Declension edit

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

Swedish edit

 
Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun edit

tub c

  1. a tube (container)
    tandkrämstub ― tube of toothpaste
  2. a cylinder (container)
    gastub ― gas cylinder
  3. a spotting scope
    Synonym: tubkikare

Declension edit

Declension of tub 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tub tuben tuber tuberna
Genitive tubs tubens tubers tubernas

References edit

White Hmong edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tub

  1. son
  2. child
  3. (slang) kid

References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 266; 283..
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