TUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tub mean? 

• TUB (noun)
  The noun TUB has 3 senses:

1. a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

2. a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

3. the amount that a tub will hold

  Familiarity information: TUB used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bathing tub; bathtub; tub

Hypernyms ("tub" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tub"):

footbath (a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet)

hot tub (a very large tub (large enough for more than one bather) filled with hot water)

hip bath; sitz bath (a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position)

Holonyms ("tub" is a part of...):

bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tub; vat

Hypernyms ("tub" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tub"):

washtub (a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The amount that a tub will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

tub; tubful

Context example:

a tub of water

Hypernyms ("tub" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

The first was too fat: “He’s as round as a tub,” said she.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Hygiene: are you able to take a tub bath?

(HAQ-DI - Able to Take Tub Bath, NCI Thesaurus)

"Hannah will tell us what to do, and we'll have everything nice when you come home," added Beth, getting out her mop and dish tub without delay.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There happened to be a bath-tub for the servants in the laundry building, and he electrified Joe by taking a cold bath.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Disabled in that typhoon. Old tub. Opened up top and bottom like a sieve. They were adrift four days.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) History; when you get into the tub or shower, are you able to tell the hot water from the cold water?

(MNSI - Able to Tell Hot from Cold Water, NCI Thesaurus)

The mist may come from hot tubs, showers, or air-conditioning units for large buildings.

(Legionnaires' Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

A dark store-room opens out of it, and that is a place to be run past at night; for I don't know what may be among those tubs and jars and old tea-chests, when there is nobody in there with a dimly-burning light, letting a mouldy air come out of the door, in which there is the smell of soap, pickles, pepper, candles, and coffee, all at one whiff.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Drowning precautions should include: • Fences around pools • Supervising children near any body of water, including tubs • Not swimming or boating when under the influence of alcohol or sedatives • Wearing life jackets when boating • Learning CPR

(Drowning, NIH)