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• WordNet 3.6
  • v sub be a substitute "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague","The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
  • n sub a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
  • n sub 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
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• Interesting fact: The word "snorkel" comes from the German word "schnoerkel", which was a tube used by German submarine crews in WW2. The subs used an electric battery when traveling underwater, which had to be recharged using diesel engines, which needed air to run. To avoid the hazard of surfacing to run the engines, the Germans used the schnoerkel to feed air from the surface into the engines.
• • Sub a shortened form of submarine sandwich; also called hero hero sandwich, and grinder.
  • Sub a shortened form of submarine, the boat.
  • Sub A subordinate; a subaltern.
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• Interesting fact: Russian submarine designers are building military submarines out of concrete. Because concrete becomes stronger under high pressure, (C-subs) could settle down to the bottom in very deep water and wait for enemy ships to pass overhead. Concrete would not show up on sonar displays (it looks just like sand or rocks), so the passing ships would not see the sub lurking below.
• • n sub A prefix of Latin origin, meaning ‘under, below, beneath,’ or ‘from under.’ It occurs in its literal sense in many words, verbs, adjectives, and nouns, taken from the Latin, as in subjacent, underlying, subscribe, underwrite, subside, sit down, submerge, plunge down, etc., the literal sense being in many cases not felt in English, as in subject, subjoin, subtract, etc.
  • n sub A subaltern; a subordinate.
  • n sub A substitute; specifically, one who is willing to serve as a substitute for a regular compositor on a newspaper.
  • sub To act as a substitute; specifically, to act as the substitute of another in a composing-room.
  • sub To subirrigate. See subbing, 2.
  • sub An abbreviation of subject
  • sub of substitute
  • sub of suburb
  • sub of suburban.
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• Interesting fact: The most remote island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, which is above the sub-Antarctic zone.
• • n Sub sub (coll.) a subordinate, a subaltern: subsist money, being a part of a man's wages paid to him while the work is going on.
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• Albert Camus

  

  “A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.”

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