Tub vs. Basin — What's the Difference?

A wide, open, deep, typically round container with a flat bottom used for holding liquids, growing plants, etc.

A bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin.

A short, broad boat that handles awkwardly

A wide open container used for preparing food or for holding liquid

Plant in a tub

A circular or oval valley or natural depression on the earth's surface, especially one containing water

Wash or bathe in or as in a tub or bath

An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.

An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

A washbowl; a sink.

The contents of such a vessel.

A body of water that is connected to the sea and is partially or almost completely enclosed by land.

A bathtub.

A small body of water that is artificially enclosed.

(Informal) A bath taken in a bathtub.

See watershed.

(Informal) A wide, clumsy, slow-moving boat.

A broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center.

A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.

A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.

A coal car used in a mine.

A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.

To pack or store in a tub.

(obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.

To wash or bathe in a tub.

A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.

To take a bath.

(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.

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

(geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

To create a concavity or depression in.

A bathtub.

To serve as or become a basin.

A slow-moving craft.

To shelter or enclose in a basin.

Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

A small cask.

The quantity contained in a basin.

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

A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

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

A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

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

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; - especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

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

A bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids;

(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

The quantity that a basin will hold;

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.

A natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it;

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.

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries;

Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., - often used jocosely or opprobriously.

A bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face;

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; - so called by miners.

To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

The amount that a tub will hold;