Tub vs. Vat

Tub and Vat Definitions
Tub
An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.
Vat
A large vessel, such as a tub, cistern, or barrel, used to hold or store liquids.
Tub
The amount that such a vessel can hold.
Vat
To put into or treat in a vat.
Tub
The contents of such a vessel.
Vat
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
A vat of liquid
A vat of acid
A vat of wine
A vat of olives
A vat of fat
A vat of glue
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Tub
A bathtub.
Vat
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
Tub
(Informal) A bath taken in a bathtub.
Vat
(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
Tub
(Informal) A wide, clumsy, slow-moving boat.
Vat
(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.
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Tub
A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.
Vat
(transitive) To put into a vat.
Tub
A coal car used in a mine.
Vat
(transitive) To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
Tub
To pack or store in a tub.
Vat
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.
Let him produce his vats and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards.
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Tub
To wash or bathe in a tub.
Vat
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.
Tub
To take a bath.
Vat
A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
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.
Vat
A vessel for holding holy water.
Tub
The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
She added a tub of margarine to the stew.
Vat
To put or transfer into a vat.
Tub
A bathtub.
Vat
A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
Tub
A slow-moving craft.
Vat
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Tub
Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
Tub
A small cask.
A tub of gin
Tub
Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
Tub
(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
Tub
(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
Tub
(slang) A corpulent or obese person.
Tub
(transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
To tub a plant
Tub
(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.
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.
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.
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.
Tub
A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
Tub
A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
Tub
A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; - so called by miners.
Tub
To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
Tub
To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
Don't we all tub in England ?
Tub
A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
Tub
A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Tub
The amount that a tub will hold;
A tub of water