Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
tub
IPA transcription: [t'ʌb]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bathtub, bathing_tub, bath, tub
Meaning:
a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
Synonyms:
tub, vat
Meaning:
a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Usage examples
"Let's put him in the bath tub and soak it off."
With Rob's assistance she dragged the tub upstairs.
The first was too fat: 'He's as round as a tub,' said she.
Here was her boat! a very large, old-fashioned, oblong tub.
Crush them together and boil them in a large tub of water, and then put me into it.'
She lined the oblong tub with a blanket, and made ready bread and cold meat left from supper.
She dragged the wash tub into the room with her feeble hands and sank on the bed, gasping for breath.
The water was now several inches deep on the porch and she contrived to half-float, half-row the tub into the room.
I pinned a penciled message on paper to the tub before departing, for the benefit of the posse, and my caravan was on the move again.
There was a single large window in the room, and they set the tub directly by it, so that when the water rose the tub would float out.