English Dictionary

tub

/tʌb/

noun

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.

I filled the tub with warm water and relaxed after a long day.

意味（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.

He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.

意味（2）

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

She added a tub of margarine to the stew.

意味（3）

A bathtub.

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.

意味（4）

(nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.

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.

意味（5）

(humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

意味（6）

A small cask.

a tub of gin

意味（7）

Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).

意味（8）

(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth

tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth To the tub-fast and the diet

意味（10）

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

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.