tub

A wide container with a flat bottom, used to hold things or wash them.

• Put the clothes in the tub.
• The empty ice cream tub has a lid.
• We washed the blankets in a large tub.

Similar words: container, basin

Common phrases: plastic tub, tub of something, wash in a tub

The amount of something that fills one wide container.

• We shared a tub of yogurt.
• She added half a tub of butter.
• They finished two tubs of ice cream that evening.

How to use it: a tub of something (We ate a tub of ice cream.)

Similar words: containerful

Common phrases: tub of butter, tub of yogurt, whole tub

A small wooden barrel used to hold liquids or other goods.

• A wooden tub stood in the cellar.
• The sailors carried a tub of gin aboard.
• The old tub leaked through its wooden sides.

Similar words: cask, small barrel

Common phrases: wooden tub, tub of gin

To plant or store something in a wide container.

• We tub the young trees each spring.
• The gardener tubbed the shrub in fresh soil.
• They tubbed the butter for storage.

Similar words: pot

Common phrases: tub a plant, tub a tree