Tab vs. Tub

Tab and Tub Definitions
Tab
A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.
Tub
An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.
Tab
A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.
Tub
The amount that such a vessel can hold.
Tab
A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.
Tub
The contents of such a vessel.
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Tab
A pull-tab.
Tub
A bathtub.
Tab
A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.
Tub
(Informal) A bath taken in a bathtub.
Tab
Cost; price
The tab for upgrading the computers would be high.
Tub
(Informal) A wide, clumsy, slow-moving boat.
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Tab
A tabulator on a typewriter.
Tub
A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.
Tab
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.
Tub
A coal car used in a mine.
Tab
This special ASCII character.
Tub
To pack or store in a tub.
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Tab
A tabloid.
Tub
To wash or bathe in a tub.
Tab
To supply with a tab or tabs.
Tub
To take a bath.
Tab
To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard
Tab over to the next column.
Tub
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.
Tab
A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
Tub
The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
Tab
(slang) An ear.
Tub
A bathtub.
Tab
A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
Tub
A slow-moving craft.
Tab
(GUI) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
How many tabs are open in your Web browser?
Tub
Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
Tab
A fast march or run with full kit.
Tub
A small cask.
A tub of gin
Tab
A restaurant bill.
Tub
Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
Tab
Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
Put this round on my tab, please, barman.
Tub
(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
Tab
(by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
Tub
(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
Tab
(computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
Tub
(slang) A corpulent or obese person.
Tab
A cigarette.
Giv' us a tab man!
Tub
(transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
To tub a plant
Tab
A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
Tub
(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.
Tab
(Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.
Tub
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.
Tab
(colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.
Tub
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.
Tab
(informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
Tub
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.
Tab
(transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.
Tub
A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
Tab
(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.
Tub
A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
Tab
The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Tub
A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; - so called by miners.
Tab
A tag. See Tag, 2.
Tub
To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
Tab
A loop for pulling or lifting something.
Tub
To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
Don't we all tub in England ?
Tab
A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
Tub
A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
Tab
A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
Tub
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Tab
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.
Tub
The amount that a tub will hold;
A tub of water
Tab
A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.
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.
Tab
The bill in a restaurant;
He asked the waiter for the check
Tab
Sensationalist journalism
Tab
The key on an electric typewriter that causes a tabulation
Tab
A short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it;
Pull the tab to open the can
Files with a red tab will be stored separately
The collar has a tab with a button hole
Tab
A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet