sub

Plural: subs

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
• a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
• Abbreviation of submarine.
• Clipping of submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
• Clipping of submersible.
• Clipping of substitute, often in sports or teaching.
• Clipping of subscription (“a payment made for membership of a club, etc.”).
• Clipping of subtitle
• Clipping of subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)
• Clipping of subeditor
• Clipping of subcontractor
• Clipping of subwoofer
• Clipping of submission (of a work for publication).
• Clipping of submissive
• Clipping of subordinate
• Clipping of subaltern
• Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
• Clipping of subsistence money, part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
• Clipping of subreddit.
• Clipping of subject (“particular area of study”)

Verb

Verb Forms: subbed, subbing, subs

• To act as a substitute; to replace someone temporarily.
• 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"
• To substitute for.
• To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
• To replace (a player) with a substitute.
• To bring on (a player) as a substitute.
• To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
• To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
• To lend (a person) money.
• To subscribe.
• To take a submissive role.
• To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
• To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

Prep

• Under.

Examples

• He had to sub out his ’Q’ tile, unable to find a suitable word for it.
• He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.
• He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes.
• I'm totally stoked; just got 10 new subs after my last video.
• I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.
• She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.
• We can get subs at that deli.
• With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs.

Synonyms

bomber, Cuban sandwich, fill in, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, pigboat, poor boy, stand in, submarine, submarine sandwich, substitute, torpedo, U-boat, wedge, zep, CC, S, grinder#Noun, hero sandwich#Noun, hero#Noun, hoagie#Noun, po' boy#Noun, spuckie#Noun, submarine#Noun, torpedo#Noun, wedge#Noun

Related Words

D-sub, Italian sub, Italian sub sandwich, blood sub, dye-sub, pizza sub, pizza sub sandwich, pub-sub, semper ubi sub ubi, soft sub, soft-sub, stone sub, sub atomic, sub bench, sub clover, sub fusc, sub in, sub judice, sub modo, sub nom., sub out, sub sandwich, sub silencio, sub specie aeterni, sub tender, sub voce, switch

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