tub meaning
EN
[tʌb] [-ʌb] WTub
- Tub may refer to:
- A container:
- a large round container without a lid:
- a plant pot
- a shallow, plastic or paper container, typically with a lid or closure
- Tub (unit), a former quantity for sale or butter or cheese
- A bathtub, a plumbing fixture for bathing
- Hot tub, a large bath or small pool designed to comfortably hold multiple persons
- Quarry tub, a type of railway or tramway wagon
- Slack tub, in blacksmithing, a quench
- Tub boat, an unpowered cargo boat used on early canals
- Twin tub, a type of washing machine
- Tub file, in computing, an early, primitive random access memory technology.
- NounPLtubs
- 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.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- He added a tub of margarine to the stew.
- A bathtub.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- A small cask.
- a tub of gin
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- VerbSGtubsPRtubbingPT, PPtubbed
- (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
- to tub a plant
- (intransitive) To bathe.
- (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tub in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en tube
- fr tube
- en tubular
- en tuberculosis
- en tubing
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "tub" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.