tub: Meaning and Definition of

tub

1. a bathtub.
2. a broad, round, open, wooden container, usually made of staves held together by hoops and fitted around a flat bottom.
3. any of various containers resembling or suggesting a tub: a tub for washing clothes.
4. the amount a tub will hold.
5. a short and fat person.
6. an old, slow, or clumsy vessel.
7. a bath in a bathtub.
8. an ore car; tram.
9. a two-seat aircraft, esp. a trainer.

1. to place or keep in a tub.
2. to bathe in a bathtub.

1. to bathe oneself in a bathtub.
2. to undergo washing, esp. without damage, as a fabric: This cotton print tubs well.