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sub

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What does sub mean?

noun

  1. Abbreviation of submarine.
  2. Clipping of submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
  3. Clipping of submersible.
More meanings (28)

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of substitute, often in sports or teaching.
  2. (informal) Clipping of subscription (“a payment made for membership of a club, etc.”).
  3. (informal) Clipping of subtitle
  4. Clipping of subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)
  5. Clipping of subeditor
  6. Clipping of subcontractor
  7. (slang) Clipping of subwoofer
  8. Clipping of submission (of a work for publication).
  9. (informal) Clipping of submissive
  10. Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
  11. Clipping of subsistence money, part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
  12. Clipping of subreddit.
  13. Clipping of subject (“particular area of study”)
  14. Clipping of subliminal (“an audio or video recording intended to produce physical or psychological changes in the listener”)
  15. (dated) Clipping of subordinate
  16. (dated) Clipping of subaltern

verb

  1. (informal) To substitute for.
  2. (informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  3. (informal) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
  4. (informal) To bring on (a player) as a substitute.
  5. To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  6. (slang) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
  7. (slang) To lend (a person) money.
  8. (slang) To subscribe.
  9. To take a submissive role.
  10. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  11. To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

preposition

  1. Under.
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IPA pronunciation

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“Egregium sanctumque virum si cerno, bimembri Hoc monstrum puero, et miranti jam sub aratro Piscibus inventis, et foetae comparo mulae.”
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
But we were allowed only to “sub” fivepence of the total sum, though the tally-keeper, short of change, gave us sixpence.
Jack LondonThe People of the AbyssProject Gutenberg ebook #1688
More book examples (3)
Nevertheless, no certain criterion can possibly be given by which variable forms, local forms, sub species and representative species can be recognised.
Charles DarwinThe Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th EditionProject Gutenberg ebook #2009
The prepositions a or ab, absque, coram, cum, de e or ex, prae, pro, sine, tenus, in, subter, sub and super govern the ablative.
Jean WebsterDaddy-Long-LegsProject Gutenberg ebook #157
“Panem depsticium sic facito. Manus mortariumque bene lavato. Farinam in mortarium indito, aquæ paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre. Ubi bene subegeris, defingito, coquitoque sub testu.”
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205