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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#x1)
- Never leave a baby alone in the bathtub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#x2)
- The bathtub holds 150 litres of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#x3)
- The dog jumped out of the bathtub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#x4)
- The tap fills the bathtub at 10 litres a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#x5)
- My little brother plays with boats in the bathtub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathtub/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.