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Definition of Submarine

1. Adjective. Beneath the surface of the sea.

2. Verb. Move forward or under in a sliding motion. "The child was injured when he submarined under the safety belt of the car"

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

4. Verb. Throw with an underhand motion.

5. 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.

6. Verb. Bring down with a blow to the legs.

7. Verb. Control a submarine.

8. Verb. Attack by submarine. "The Germans submarined the Allies"

Definition of Submarine

1. a. Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.

2. n. A submarine plant or animal.

3. n. A submarine boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif. submergible submarine when capable of operating at various depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and submersible submarine when capable of being only partly submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks.

Definition of Submarine

1. Adjective. Under water. ¹

2. Adjective. Of something hidden or undisclosed, e.g. '''submarine patent'''. ¹

3. Noun. A boat that can go underwater. ¹

4. Noun. A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread. ¹

5. Noun. (baseball) Pitch delivered with an underhand motion. ¹

6. Verb. To operate or serve on a submarine ¹

7. Verb. To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Submarine

1. [v -RINED, -RINING, -RINES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Submarine

submachine gun submachine guns submachines submagic submammary subman submanager submanagers submandibular submandibular gland

submandibular salivary gland submandibulars submanifold submanifolds submarginal submarine (current term) submarine ball submarine earthquake submarine fan submarine patent

submarine pitch submarine river submarine rivers submarine sandwich submarine torpedo submarined submarinelike submariner submariners submarines

Literary usage of Submarine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Ind 88:143 О 23 '16 Original ambitions of the submarine. ... Sei Am S 81:135 F 26 '16 Poleward by submarine, il Lit Digest 52:434 F 19 '16 Present condition ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Survey 39:137-40 N 10 '17 66:89 Jl 47 submarine boats War changes in the map of ... Lit Digest 55:43+ О 6 47 Escape from a sunken submarine, il Lit Digest ..."

3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"May К—Danish steamer Cathay is sunk by a German submarine In the North Sea ... May 12—British submarine E-14 has penetrated to the Sea of Marmora and has ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"British submarine enters Sea of Marmora. French warship Leon Gambetta sunk. ... Austrian submarine sinks the Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Adriatic. ..."

5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1915)
"Describes the spying tube of the submarine and its development. Ills. 1200 w. Sci Am—Jan. ... 56974 A. The submarine. Extracts from a lecture by Prof. ..."

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