Tab vs. Tub

A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.

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

A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.

The contents of such a vessel.

A pull-tab.

A bathtub.

A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.

(Informal) A bath taken in a bathtub.

Cost; price

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

A tabulator on a typewriter.

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

A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text.

A coal car used in a mine.

This special ASCII character.

To pack or store in a tub.

A tabloid.

To wash or bathe in a tub.

To supply with a tab or tabs.

To take a bath.

To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard

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

A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

(slang) An ear.

A bathtub.

A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.

A slow-moving craft.

(GUI) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.

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

A fast march or run with full kit.

A small cask.

A restaurant bill.

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

Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate

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

(by extension) The cost or bill for anything.

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

(computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

A cigarette.

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

A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.

(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

(Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.

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.

(colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.

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.

(informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.

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

(transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

(computing) To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.

A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

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

A tag. See Tag, 2.

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

A loop for pulling or lifting something.

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

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

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

A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

A small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.

The amount that a tub will hold;

A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.

A key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; - used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.

The bill in a restaurant;

Sensationalist journalism

The key on an electric typewriter that causes a tabulation

A short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it;

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet