bathtub

«bathtub» in Mova's school dictionary: A large container for water that you sit or lie in to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a bathtub, bathtubs)

meaning for a pupil

A large container for water that you sit or lie in to wash your body; a bath. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday home life. Safety: never leave a small child alone in a bathtub. In maths problems: filling and emptying a bathtub (litres per minute). Phrases: fill the bathtub, in the bathtub.

examples

• She filled the bathtub with warm water. tree →
• Never leave a baby alone in the bathtub. tree →
• The bathtub holds 150 litres of water. tree →
• The dog jumped out of the bathtub. tree →
• The tap fills the bathtub at 10 litres a minute. tree →
• My little brother plays with boats in the bathtub. tree →

note

Mostly US; in the UK, Ireland and Australia people usually just say "bath" (have a bath, run a bath). In maths, a tap filling while a plug drains means subtract the flows.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bathtub» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.