Tub Meaning
/tʌb/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
nounThe contents or capacity of such a vessel.
Sentence Examples
How much longer will it take for the tub to fill?
Japanese love to soak in a hot tub before bed.
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After a long day, she soaked in the ____ filled with hot bubbles.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1920, Theodore Sharpe, My Place in the Shade: And Various Verse, page 27:
"The rest of the evening we had a fine west wind, which carried us on at near five knots an hour, as much as our lumbering old tub can possibly go."
— 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 166:
"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"."
— 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 24:52 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022:
"All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth."
— 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
"The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis."
— 1958 September 26, Anthony A. Vickers, “The Winchburgh Shale Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 613:
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After a long day, she soaked in the ____ filled with hot bubbles.