Tub vs. Vat: What's the Difference?

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

A large vessel, such as a tub, cistern, or barrel, used to hold or store liquids.

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

To put into or treat in a vat.

The contents of such a vessel.

A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.

A bathtub.

A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.

(Informal) A bath taken in a bathtub.

(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.

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

(dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

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

(transitive) To put into a vat.

A coal car used in a mine.

(transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.

To pack or store in a tub.

A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding liquors in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.

To wash or bathe in a tub.

A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.

To take a bath.

A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.

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 vessel for holding holy water.

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.

To put or transfer into a vat.

A bathtub.

A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production

A slow-moving craft.

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

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

A small cask.

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

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

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

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

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

(ambitransitive) To bathe in a 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.

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.

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

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

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

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

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

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

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

The amount that a tub will hold;