SUB (subbed, subbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: subbed    , subbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sub mean? 

• SUB (noun)
  The noun SUB has 2 senses:

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

2. a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes

  Familiarity information: SUB used as a noun is rare.

• SUB (verb)
  The verb SUB has 1 sense:

1. be a substitute

  Familiarity information: SUB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bomber; Cuban sandwich; grinder; hero; hero sandwich; hoagie; hoagy; Italian sandwich; poor boy; sub; submarine; submarine sandwich; torpedo; wedge; zep

Hypernyms ("sub" is a kind of...):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pigboat; sub; submarine; U-boat

Hypernyms ("sub" is a kind of...):

submersible; submersible warship (a warship designed to operate under water)

Meronyms (parts of "sub"):

conning tower (a raised bridge on a submarine; often used for entering and exiting)

escape hatch (hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency)

periscope (an optical instrument that provides a view of an otherwise obstructed field)

breather; schnorchel; schnorkel; snorkel; snorkel breather (air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time)

asdic; echo sounder; sonar (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sub"):

attack submarine (a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping)

auxiliary research submarine (a submarine for research purposes)

fleet ballistic missile submarine (a submarine carrying ballistic missiles)

nautilus; nuclear-powered submarine; nuclear submarine (a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power)

• SUB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sub    ... he / she / it subs   
Past simple: subbed   
Past participle: subbed   
-ing form: subbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a substitute

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

fill in; stand in; sub; substitute

Context example:

The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet

Hypernyms (to "sub" is one way to...):

change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

subbing (working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence)

 Context examples 

And that telegony is still sub judice?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Heat-shock proteins are an important sub set of chaperones.

(Chaperone, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): The relationship between an organization and its legal representative, the whole/part relationship between an organization and its sub organizations (e.g. departments, divisions).

(Organization Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

It is as well just to have a tag or two of Horace or Virgil: ‘sub tegmine fagi,’ or ‘habet fœnum in cornu,’ which gives a flavour to one’s conversation like the touch of garlic in a salad.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Half an hour later I was seated in the newspaper office with a huge tome in front of me, which had been opened at the article Weissmann versus Darwin, with the sub heading, Spirited Protest at Vienna. Lively Proceedings.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)