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Definitions for Sub
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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-".

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. Pedram Javaheri:

    The brutal nature of the cold temperatures in towns like Casper, Wyoming, are one for the books, the forecast low in Casper on Monday morning is expected to hover around -1 ° F. Of the nearly 2,500 October days on record in Casper -- records date back to 1939 -- only four mornings have ever been this cold. Incredibly, all four sub-zero October temperatures took place in the final days of October 2019.

  2. Jen Hoover:

    They’re phenomenal basketball team, when you’ve got that many McDonald’s All-Americans and you’re bringing them off the bench, unfortunately today, when we had to sub, they were able to turn it up. And we didn’t respond well to that.

  3. Stuart Price:

    In all 10 years since I've been photographing lions in Africa, yesterday afternoon was the first time I've ever pointed up to get the picture. This happened after a playful sub-adult male lion jumped into a tree less than five meters from our vehicle.

  4. Brenda Kelly:

    The FTSE is now in a bear market and should we close below 5,700, a psychological level in itself, we may well see the 5,620 level and even sub-5,600 in a very short time, it's not a pretty sight with every single sector in the red.

  5. Helen Clark:

    These sub-goals spell out in great detail what we need to do so that every year there is stock taking as to what we've been able to do.

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