meaning of tub

1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
2.
The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt. , etc.
3.
Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc. , -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.
4.
A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
5.
A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
6.
A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
7.
To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
8.
To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
9.
TUB Technische Universitat Berlin. Berlin technical university. TUBA protocol> An Internet protocol, described in RFC 1347, RFC 1526 and RFC 1561, and based on the OSI Connectionless Network Protocol CNLP. TUBA is one of the proposals for Internet Protocol Version 6.
10.
a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body


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