Tabbed vs Tubbed - What's the difference?
tabbed | tubbed |
Having a tab (protruding strip of material).
* 1907 , Joseph Meadon, ?Walter Lawrence Tobey, The Graphic Arts and Crafts Year Book
(computing, graphical user interface) Having tabs (the user interface element).
(tab)
(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.
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 verbs the difference between tabbed and tubbed
is that tabbed is (tab) while tubbed is (tub).As an adjective tabbed
is having a tab (protruding strip of material).tabbed
English
Adjective
(-)- Letter up a tabbed folder for each different catalog you intend to issue. As you collect matter for this catalog, put it in the one place — the folder devoted to that catalog.
- A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.
Verb
(head)tubbed
English
Verb
(head)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?