What's the difference between bucket and tub?

Bucket


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
  • (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc.
  • (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.
  • (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) A single spin density gradient ultracentrifugation method in a swinging bucket rotor has been applied for the detection and isolation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) subfractions.
  • (3) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
  • (4) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
  • (5) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
  • (6) In the 1990s, when the Sun enjoyed unparalleled influence, its editor Kelvin Mackenzie could tell the prime minister John Major that he was about to pour "a large bucket of shit" over him.
  • (7) One by one, the rain having slowed, the men turn the bucket's plastic tap and douse their hands in the life-saving water.
  • (8) Here's one entry: 1995: The government is full of jack-booted thugs in bucket helmets.
  • (9) Patient expectations for independence, comfort, and cosmesis have been disappointed with traditional bucket designs.
  • (10) Leaving aside the fact that in the real world, after a lifetime of buckets, there’s a fair chance Andy would be missing a foot, what’s even more jarring is that KFC would actually try to use the fraught process of foster care to make even more money.
  • (11) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
  • (12) ‘Dysfunctional’ ABC management slammed Trevor Bormann, last year’s Walkley winner for Foreign Correspondent’s “Prisoner X” scoop, has dumped a bucket on ABC news management on the way out the door.
  • (13) Could they not, I wondered, stop pouring buckets of warm sympathy over their customers, and actually tell us what was happening?
  • (14) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
  • (15) Grey water is simply the water used in washing dishes, clothes and showering that is allowed to cool, then saved from going down the plug hole and redirected to the garden – either by bucket, or specially installed outlet pipes.
  • (16) Next, crush the fruit in a large plastic food-grade bucket.
  • (17) Hyacinth Bucket finagling her way into the company of mass murderers."
  • (18) Fire crews typically rely on helicopters scooping up 1,500-litre buckets of water from ponds and streams to put out flames.
  • (19) Serum samples are overlayered with a sodium chloride density gradient in a preparative ultracentrifuge tube and thin layers are removed at the top of the tube after successive centrifugations at different speeds in a swinging bucket rotor.
  • (20) As the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, commented : “No one should pretend just combining two financially leaky buckets will magically create a watertight funding solution.” But the preoccupation with structure and funding omits a key piece of the integration puzzle: culture.

Tub


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.
  • (n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
  • (n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
  • (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
  • (v. t.) To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
  • (i.) To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
  • (2) To cap it all, the shadow foreign secretary and Unionist tub-thumper Douglas Alexander hijacked the row to berate the independence camp for lowering the debate's tone.
  • (3) The day before he died, he spent the whole day in the hot tub with his family.
  • (4) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (5) Tub-Ag activity associated with a protein of the same molecular size was demonstrated in the serum, as well as in Pronase extracts of all the organs tested, including kidney, liver, lung, spleen, intestine, stomach, and heart.
  • (6) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.
  • (7) By Monday lunchtime, we had a hot tub ready to give to Skye.
  • (8) After that, he retrieved a coin from a tub of fermented milk with his teeth.
  • (9) Swimming pools produce 6-20 immersion accidents per year per 100,000 children at risk, and the domestic family bath tub produces 1-78.
  • (10) These plants can grow very large and are often planted in tubs.
  • (11) The pathology of the kidney of the rats with proteinuria was that of a typical membranous glomerulonephritis; thickening of glomerular capillary walls with granular deposits of gamma-globulin and Tub-Ag was observed.
  • (12) Persistent, massive proteinuria appeared still later, more than 30 days after injection, when anti-Tub-Ag disappeared and Tub-Ag reappeared in the serum of some of those rats.
  • (13) According to own examinations of the following things are often contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms: appliances for sucking off, handbrushes, instruments, beds, clinical clothing, washing basins, bath tubs and floor sinks.
  • (14) We report on 108 patients of the literature: 8 (7%) patients were wearing hard contact lenses; 19 (17%) remembered a trauma; 4 (3.7%) had visited a hot tub; 61 (56%) needed penetrating keratoplasty, 11 (10%) rekeratoplasty; 5 (4.6%) eyes were enucleated; in 21 (19%) patients the diagnosis was made on histological grounds.
  • (15) Portland meanwhile had been giving themselves very little margin in some of their victories over rivals (including Seattle) of late, but opened up a tub of I Can't Believe it's Not Goals™ in a 5-0 final day win against Chivas USA, to get their own last nagging doubts out of the way before the playoffs start.
  • (16) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
  • (17) 18, 6409-6412], unsatisfactory results were obtained with AmpliTaq and native Taq polymerase (poor reproducibility, low product yield, nonspecific products), whereas Tub polymerase completely failed to amplify this fragment.
  • (18) The ratio of the count rate per unit activity for source locations within a 30 x 23-cm water-filled tub phantom to the count rate per unit activity for Tc-99m point sources of known activity imaged in air was used to judge the accuracy of activity determination.
  • (19) Since herpesvirus has been shown to survive in the hot tub environment, herpes simplex should be considered as another potential cause of disease in the spa setting.
  • (20) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.

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