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You can make 3 words from tub according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of tub

tub

Etymology

From Middle English tubbe, tobbe, from Middle Dutch tubbe or Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, further etymology unknown. Considered to be unrelated to tube.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭb, IPA^(key): /tʌb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

Noun

tub (plural tubs)

1. A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.

2. The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

3. A bathtub.
4. (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
5. (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
6. A small cask.

7. Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
8. (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
9. (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
10. (slang) A corpulent or obese person.

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Verb

tub (third-person singular simple present tubs, present participle tubbing, simple past and past participle tubbed)

1. (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.

2. (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?

References

Further reading

• tub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BTU, TBU, but, but-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈtup]
• Rhymes: -up

Noun

tub m (plural tubs)

1. tube

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Further reading

• “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

Etymology

From Vietnamese tử, from Middle Chinese 子 (t͡sɨ^X, “son, child”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu˥/

Noun

tub

1. son
2. child
3. (slang) kid

Juba Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtub/, [ˈtub]

Noun

tub

1. brick

References

• Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[2], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 25

Kavalan

Noun

tub

1. lid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tube, Latin tubus (“tube, pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tub]

Noun

tub n (plural tuburi)

1. tube

   Synonym: țeavă

Declension

Swedish

Noun

tub c

1. a tube (container)

   tandkrämstub ― tube of toothpaste

2. a cylinder (container)

   gastub ― gas cylinder

3. a spotting scope

   Synonym: tubkikare

Declension

References

• tub in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tub in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tub in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tu̯ɛn (“son, boy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu˥/

Noun

tub

1. son
2. child
3. (slang) kid

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.