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Meaning sub meaning

What does sub mean?
Definitions in simple English

sub Noun

— Short for submarine. — Short for submarine sandwich. — Short for substitute. — Short for subscription. — Short for submissive.

sub Verb

— To substitute for. I subbed for an injured player during last night's game. — To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. Now that I've retired from my full-time teaching job, I'll do some subbing from time to time to keep busy and earn a little extra money. Ms. Smith subs for Mr. Jones' math class when he's sick. — , To replace (a player) with a substitute. He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.

sub

— verb (= substitute) 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 — noun (= submarine) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes — noun (= bomber) 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

Synonyms sub synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sub?

sub English » English

submarine substitute pigboat U-boat zep wedge torpedo subtitle submarine sandwich stand in poor boy hoagy hoagie hero sandwich hero grinder fill in bomber Italian sandwich Cuban sandwich surrogate subtraction substitution submersible warship submersible subcontract sub-editor sub- small sacrifice replacement replace proxy pinch hitter minor junior double deputize

SUB English » English

subtraction substitution substitute character Substitute (ASCII character)

Topics sub topics

What do people use sub to talk about?
States Location Here, there On

Under, below

Conjugation sub conjugation

How do you conjugate sub?

sub · verb

Examples sub examples

How do I use sub in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Let's keep this conversation sub rosa.
I want a sub rosa investigation of the bodies.

Movie subtitles

The perimeter has been breached, we need backup at sub-level 6!
In the Castle of Loges, near a small city in the sub-prefecture of Saint-Calais.
I found out in the last war. My corns always hurt when there's a sub around.
It's a sub.
The sub's keeping out of range, sir, because she doesn't want to match guns.
Our first job is to shake that sub off our tail.
I wonder what them guys in the sub are thinking about.
There's a sub following us, and my feet don't hurt.
Hey, Cap, you know it's only going to be a short time before that sub comes up abeam of us.
Cut out every sound. To beat the sub's sound detector?
I tell you, there's no sub around. My corns don't hurt.
I felt like cheering when the sun came up, and that stinking sub wasn't around.
Trying to bring that sub to the surface.
A few new men from sub school.
Oh, I thought it was only a sub-committee meeting.
Napoleon was a sub-lieutenant from Corsica! He became Emperor.
I got very sensitive feet. I found out in the last war corns always hurt when there's a sub around.
Keep quiet about the sub business!
The sub's keeping out of range. Because she doesn't want to match guns.
Our first job is to shake that sub off our tail. Next is to head to murmansk and deliver the goods.
Wonder what them guys in the sub are thinking about.
It's only going to be a short time before that sub comes abeam of us.
To beat the sub's sound detector? We've got to.
I tell you, there's no sub around.
Felt like cheering when the sun came up, and that stinking sub wasn't around.
Why is he buring the ship? Trying to surface the sub.
My corns always hurt when there's a sub around.
To beat the sub's sound detector?
To collect Brewer's sub.
Course you might not call it a cave-in exactly, but I was stuck in an elevator once, in the store I work in, between the basement and the sub-basement.
Third string sub to hero in 20 seconds.

News and current affairs

Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930's.
Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the region just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, most economies failed to respond to the adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and World Bank.
There might be some money in repackaging, but not the billions that banks made by slicing and dicing sub-prime mortgages into packages whose value was much greater than their contents.
As a result, gun ownership has become perversely linked to freedom in the vast gun-owning American sub-culture.
What started as a problem with sub-prime mortgages has now spread to houses more generally, as well as to other asset classes.
A strange picture of Bush emerged from conversations with sub-cabinet administration appointees, their friends, and their friends of friends.
The pace of change has varied markedly within regions and across cultural sub-groups.
And, of course, it is, with Paraguay, the only land-locked nation on the sub-continent.
There is a second solution: the exit of Germany from the eurozone or the division of the eurozone into two sub-regions.
The largest number of defaults on sub-prime mortgages will occur this spring.
The biggest obstacle to fighting graft is the weakness of the judiciary, especially at sub-national levels.
In fact, the government's success in clamping down on corruption, especially at sub-national levels, will be a litmus test of its legitimacy.
Homosexual acts are crimes in Ghana - and across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa do not share many characteristics with Muslims in other parts of the world, especially those of the Arab world.
Sub-Saharan African Muslims are less assertive, and they face considerably more difficulties in their attempts to articulate their rights and establish their presence in their respective states and regions.
Muslims in many sub-Saharan African states are also minorities.
Nevertheless, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a secular state, as are almost all sub-Saharan African states.
The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa.
As political power tends to polarize around economic power, sub-Saharan African Muslims have been under-represented in these mostly centralized political systems.
Muslim political participation in sub-Saharan Africa has thus been extremely limited.
Whether they like it or not, the majority of sub-Saharan African Muslims are represented by states that are mostly secular, Christian, or dominated by other religions.
In the face of these undeniable facts, the path chosen by the IMF and the World Bank was, at best, a mark of their incompetence and, at worst, a deliberate ploy to keep the sub-Saharan countries and their populations in bondage.
Yet, in sub-Saharan Africa, there are few hints of the global financial crisis that is consuming the capitalist world.
Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which reached record levels in recent years, is retreating, which is evidence of investor caution, not any underlying lack of optimism about the region.
Carbon-free hydroelectric power is the right choice as sub-Saharan Africa's principal source of energy.
I moved to mainland China in 1979, when the country's per capita income was less than one-third of Sub-Saharan Africa's.
So petrodollars exacerbate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, not cure it.
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