Tube vs. Tub

Tubenoun

Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.

Tubnoun

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.’;

Tubenoun

An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.

‘A tube of toothpaste.’;

Tubnoun

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

‘He added a tub of margarine to the stew.’;

Tubenoun

The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)

‘I took the tube to Waterloo and walked the rest of the way.’;

Tubnoun

A bathtub.

Tubenoun

A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).topic=Australian English

Tubnoun

A slow-moving craft.

Tubenoun

(surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.

Tubnoun

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

Tubenoun

A television. Also, derisively, boob tube. British: telly.

‘Are you just going to sit around all day and watch the tube?’;

Tubnoun

A small cask.

‘a tub of gin’;

Tubenoun

(Scotland) Idiot.

Tubnoun

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

Tubeverb

To supply with, or enclose in, a tube.

‘She tubes lipstick in the cosmetics factory.’;

Tubnoun

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

Tubeverb

To ride an inner tube.

‘They tubed down the Colorado River.’;

Tubnoun

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

Tubeverb

To intubate.

‘The patient was tubed.’;

Tubnoun

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

Tubenoun

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

Tubverb

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

‘to tub a plant’;

Tubenoun

A telescope.

Tubverb

(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

Tubenoun

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

Tubnoun

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.

Tubenoun

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

Tubnoun

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.

Tubenoun

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

Tubnoun

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

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

Tubenoun

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

Tubnoun

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

Tubenoun

A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

Tubnoun

A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

Tubenoun

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway.

Tubnoun

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

Tubeverb

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Tubverb

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

Tubenoun

conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

Tubverb

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

‘Don't we all tub in England ?’;

Tubenoun

electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

Tubnoun

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

Tubenoun

a hollow cylindrical shape

Tubnoun

a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

Tubenoun

(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

Tubnoun

the amount that a tub will hold;

‘a tub of water’;

Tubenoun

electric underground railway

Tubnoun

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

‘a rainwater tub’;

Tubeverb

provide with a tube or insert a tube into

Tubnoun

a small plastic or cardboard container in which food is bought or stored

‘a margarine tub’;

Tubeverb

convey in a tube;

‘inside Paris, they used to tube mail’;

Tubnoun

the contents of a tub or the amount it can contain

‘she ate a tub of yogurt’;

Tubeverb

ride or float on an inflated tube;

‘We tubed down the river on a hot summer day’;

Tubnoun

a washtub.

Tubeverb

place or enclose in a tube

Tubnoun

a bath

‘a soak in the tub’;

Tubnoun

a container for conveying ore, coal, etc.

‘they are loading the coal into tubs for transportation’;

Tubnoun

a short, broad boat that handles awkwardly

‘the old tub's in need of a refit’;

Tubverb

plant in a tub

‘tubbed fruit trees’;

Tubverb

wash or bathe in or as in a tub or bath

‘even your formal evening gown can be tubbed’;

Tubverb

have a bath

‘she's revolting—she doesn't tub’;