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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal See submarine.
  • n. Informal See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
  • n. A substitute.
  • verb-intransitive. To act as a substitute.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A submarine.
  • n. A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
  • n. A substitute.
  • n. A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another player part way through the game.
  • n. Short for subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
  • n. A submissive in BDSM practices.
  • n. Short for subtitle.
  • n. A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
  • n. A subordinate.
  • n. A subaltern.
  • v. To substitute for.
  • v. To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  • v. (soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
  • v. (soccer) Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
  • v. To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  • v. To lend.
  • v. To subscribe.
  • preposition. Under.
  • v. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  • v. To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A subordinate; a subaltern.
  • n. a shortened form of submarine, the boat.
  • n. a shortened form of submarine sandwich; also called hero, hero sandwich, and grinder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A prefix of Latin origin, meaning ‘under, below, beneath,’ or ‘from under.’
  • n. A subaltern; a subordinate.
  • n. A substitute; specifically, one who is willing to serve as a substitute for a regular compositor on a newspaper.
  • To act as a substitute; specifically, to act as the substitute of another in a composing-room.
  • To subirrigate. See subbing, 2.
  • An abbreviation of subject
  • of substitute
  • of suburb
  • of suburban.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be a substitute
  • n. a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
  • n. 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
  • Verb Form
    subbed    subbing    subs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    interchange    change    exchange    sandwich   
    Cross Reference
    switch   
    Variant
    subbed    subbing    submarine    hero    hero sandwich    grinder    submarine sandwich   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    subordinate    subaltern    hoagie    grinder   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cub    Hub    bub    chubb    club    cub    drub    dub    grub    hub   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    submarine    ab    cum    quoque    EO    fuit    atque    Luce    ad    quae