Bout vs Tub - What's the difference?
bout | tub |
A period of something, usually painful or unpleasant
(boxing) A boxing match.
(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
(roller derby) A roller derby match.
A fighting competition.
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
(dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
* 1809 , A Letter to Sir John Sinclair [...] containing a Statement of the System under which a considerable Farm is profitably managed in Hertfordshire. Given at the request of the Board. By Thomas Greg, Esq.'', published in ''The Farmer's Magazine , page 395:
* 1922 , An Ingenious One-Way Agrimotor'', published in ''The Commercial Motor , volume 34, published by Temple Press, page 32:
* 1976 , Claude Culpin, Farm Machinery , page 60:
(colloquial) about
English contractions
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A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
A bathtub.
(nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
(humorous, or, derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
* South
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.
To plant, set, or store in a tub.
To bathe.
* London Spectator
As nouns the difference between bout and tub
is that bout is a period of something, usually painful or unpleasant while tub is a flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.As verbs the difference between bout and tub
is that bout is to contest a bout while tub is to plant, set, or store in a tub.As a preposition bout
is (colloquial) about.bout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bught, probably from an unrecorded (etyl) variant of . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bout?s=t See bight, bought.Noun
(en noun)- a bout of drought .
- Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
- The outside bout' of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade [...] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each ' bout .
- It is in this manner that the ploughs are reversed at the termination of each bout of the field.
- The last two rounds must be ploughed shallower, and on the last bout the strip left should be one furrow width for a two-furrow plough, two for a three-furrow, and so on. [...]
Etymology 2
Written form of a of "about".Preposition
(English prepositions)- they're talking bout you!
- Maddy is bout to get beat up!
References
tub
English
Noun
(en noun)- He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.
- He added a tub of margarine to the stew.
- All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs , in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.
- a tub of gin
- (Shakespeare)
- Lars': You ready to help take down Gizmo?
'''Vault Dweller''': You bet. Let's nail that ' tub . [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/LARS.MSG]
Derived terms
* bathtub * hot tub * tubbyVerb
(tubb)- to tub a plant
- Don't we all tub in England?
