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tub
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[ noun ] (housing) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
Synonyms Used in print (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)Between the telephone and the wall_plug there was sixty feet of cord , and when the conversation came to an end , Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment , to his bathroom , where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub . He went down the hall to Eugene 's bathroom , to turn_on the hot-water_heater , and on the side of the tub he saw a pair of blue wool swimming_trunks . He reached_out and felt the bath_towel hanging_on the towel_rack over the tub . |
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[ noun ] a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Synonyms Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)My great_grandmother , I have been told , made her garden her great pride ; she cherished rare and delicate plants like oleanders in tubs and wall-flowers and lemon verbenas in pots that had to be wintered in the cellar ; she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden_heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed , and the plantain_lilies along the west_side of the house . |
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[ noun ] the amount that a tub will hold
Synonyms Examples "a tub of water" Related terms |
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