tub
See also: tüb
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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 (General Australian): (file)
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /tʊb/
- Rhymes: -ʌb
Noun
edittub (plural tubs)
- 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.
- She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
- 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.
- (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".
- (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, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.
- 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.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth
To the tub-fast and the diet
- (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.
- (automotive) 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.
- 2017 February 10, Máté Petrány, McLaren Will Start Building its Own Carbon Fiber Tubs[2], archived from the original on 31 August 2023:
- Every street or race car McLaren has built since 1981 uses a carbon fiber tub. Now, McLaren will make them in-house.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editbroad, flat-bottomed vessel
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contents or capacity of such a vessel
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bathtub — see bathtub
slow-moving craft
Verb
edittub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)
- (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
- to tub a plant
- (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?
- February 1, 1873, Meredith Townsend and Richard Holt Hutton (editors), "Change of Air and Scene", in The Spectator
References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tub”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
editAnagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittub m (plural tubs)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tub” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “tub” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tub”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Green Hmong
editEtymology
editFrom Vietnamese tử, from Middle Chinese 子 (t͡sɨX, “son, child”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittub
Juba Arabic
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittub
References
edit- Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English[3], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 25
Kavalan
editNoun
edittub
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French tube, Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittub n (plural tuburi)
Declension
editSwedish
editNoun
edittub c
- a tube (container)
- tandkrämstub
- tube of toothpaste
- a cylinder (container)
- a spotting scope
- Synonym: tubkikare
Declension
editDeclension of tub | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tub | tuben | tuber | tuberna |
Genitive | tubs | tubens | tubers | tubernas |
References
editWhite Hmong
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittub
References
edit- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 266; 283..
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