Lexic.us

Definition of Sub

1. Verb. Be a substitute. "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"

2. Noun. 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.

3. Noun. A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes.

Definition of Sub

1. n. A subordinate; a subaltern.

Definition of Sub

1. Noun. A submarine. ¹

2. Noun. A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun. ¹

3. Noun. (US informal) A substitute. ¹

4. Noun. (British informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another player part way through the game. ¹

5. Noun. (British informal often in plural) Short for subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc. ¹

6. Noun. (informal) A submissive in BDSM practices. ¹

7. Noun. (Internet informal) Short for subtitle. ¹

8. Noun. (computing programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does). ¹

9. Verb. (US informal) To substitute for. ¹

10. Verb. (US informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. ¹

11. Verb. (British informal) (football) To replace (a player) with a substitute. ¹

12. Verb. (British informal) (football) Less commonly, and often as '''sub on''', to bring on (a player) as a substitute. ¹

13. Verb. (British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit. ¹

14. Verb. (UK slang transitive) To lend. ¹

15. Verb. (slang intransitive) To subscribe. ¹

16. Preposition. Under. ¹

17. Verb. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating. ¹

18. Verb. (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sub

1. to act as a substitute [v SUBBED, SUBBING, SUBS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sub

suave suavely suaveness suavenesses suaver suaves suavest suavified suavifies suavify

suavifying suaviloquent suaviloquy suavities suavity sub (current term) sub- sub-Saharan sub-Saharan Africa sub-atomic

sub-brown dwarf sub-brown dwarfs sub-categories sub-category sub-clinical sub-deacon sub-deacons sub-discipline

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