Tub
Definitions
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- A bathtub.
- A slow-moving craft.
- Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
- A corpulent or obese person.
- The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
Equivalents
Examples
“He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.”
“She added a tub of margarine to the stew.”
“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.”
“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".”
“All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work⟳ of preaching and holding forth.”
“a tub of gin”
“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.”
“tubs and baths; bring⟳ down rose-cheeked youth To the tub-fast and the diet”
“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.”
“Every street or race⟳ car McLaren has built since 1981 uses a carbon fiber tub. Now, McLaren will make⟳ them in-house.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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