tub

tub is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.
4. noun. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
5. noun. A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
6. noun. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
7. transitive verb. To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
8. i. To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
9. noun. a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

   Synonyms: bath, bathtub

10. noun. a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

    Synonyms: vat

11. noun. the amount that a tub will hold

    "a tub of water"

    Synonyms: tubful

Synonyms

bath, bathtub, vat, tubful

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tub:

btu, but

Common word forms

tubs, tubal, tubed, tuber, tubes, tubbed, tubber, tubful, tubing, tubbing

Words from these letters

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