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Noun (2 meanings)
1. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States.
bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
sub is a type of:
- sandwich (noun) - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them
sub is a type of:
- submersible, submersible warship (noun) - a warship designed to operate under water
types of sub:
- attack submarine (noun) - a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping
- auxiliary research submarine (noun) - a submarine for research purposes
- fleet ballistic missile submarine (noun) - a submarine carrying ballistic missiles
- nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine (noun) - a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power
parts of sub:
- conning tower (noun) - a raised bridge on a submarine
- escape hatch (noun) - hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency
- periscope (noun) - an optical instrument that provides a view of an otherwise obstructed field
- snorkel, schnorkel, schnorchel, snorkel breather, breather (noun) - air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes
- sonar, echo sounder, asdic (noun) - a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return
sub is derivationally related to:
Verb (1 meaning)
1. be a substitute.
to substitute, sub, stand in, fill in
Examples:
- “The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague”,
- “The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet”
to sub is a way to:
- to exchange, change, interchange (verb) - give to, and receive from, one another
to sub is derivationally related to:
- stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in (noun) - someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- subbing, substituting (noun) - working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
- substitute, replacement (noun) - a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- substitute, reserve, second-stringer (noun) - an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch (noun) - an event in which one thing is substituted for another