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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zepnoun

    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. submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boatverb

    a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes

  3. substitute, sub, stand in, fill inverb

    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"

GCIDE

  1. Subnoun

    a shortened form of submarine, the boat.

  2. Subnoun

    a shortened form of submarine sandwich; also called hero, hero sandwich, and grinder.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sub

    in composition, signifies a subordinate degree.

Wikipedia

  1. Sub

    Sub is a common abbreviation of words beginning with the prefix "sub-".

ChatGPT

  1. sub

    A prefix "sub-" generally refers to things that are underneath, below, lesser, or secondary in position, size, or importance. It can also imply a smaller part of a larger whole. For example, in words like "submarine" (a craft that operates below the water) or "subsection" (a smaller section within a larger section).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Subnoun

    a subordinate; a subaltern

Wikidata

  1. Sub

    Sub is the debut album by Swiss Industrial metal band Apollyon Sun, released in 2000 on Mayan Records. Work on a full album, Sub began at London's Trident Studios in 1998, with renown producer Roli Mosimann. Further recording and mixing sessions took place at Manhattan's EastSide Sound, London's Nomis Studios, and at various studio locations in Switzerland. Sub features prominent final mixes by Mosimann, John Fryer, and Apollyon Sun themselves. Sub was released globally through Mayan Records in late summer 2000, after two years of studio work. "Human III" continues from a song developed by Tom Gabriel Fischer, following on from "Human" from Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales and "Human II" from Celtic Frost's Cold Lake. "Messiah" is a remake of the Hellhammer song Messiah. Hellhammer being one of Tom Gabriel Fischer's former bands. "Reefer Boy" and "Concrete Satan" both appeared on the God Leaves EP, however they have been completely re-recorded for Sub. There are several unreleased songs from these sessions including "Cradle", a re-recorded version of “God Leaves” and two further instrumentals.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sub

    sub, n. (coll.) a subordinate, a subaltern: subsist money, being a part of a man's wages paid to him while the work is going on.

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  1. SUB

    What does SUB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SUB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Sub

    Short for “subsidise,” or to draw something in advance of one’s salary.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SUB in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SUB in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of SUB in a Sentence

  1. Kirt Gardner:

    Nevertheless, a sustained period of depressed energy prices could result in increased credit loss expense for this sub-segment of our portfolio.

  2. Michael Scafuri:

    They weren't trying to escape or taking other actions to save the sub, there's no sign of panic on board.

  3. Ben Wallace:

    Built in a UK shipyard, HMS Anson demonstrates the very best of British industry, sustaining our world-leading sub-surface capabilities and underlining the UK's readiness to contribute them to shared security, especially with our closest allies Australia and the United States under the AUKUS initiative.

  4. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon:

    The threat has been changed dramatically from conventional type warfare to what might be called super-conventional...weapons of mass destruction, or sub-conventional like terror, rockets, and missiles.

  5. Carl Schuster:

    Must have been scary as hell, everyone on the Kitty Hawk expected the sub to go deep and were hoping to detect it on the other side.

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