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3-letter words (2 found)

BUS,SUB,

2-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of sub

sub

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sŭb, IPA(key): /sʌb/
  • Rhymes: -ʌb
  • Hyphenation: sub

Etymology 1

  • Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
  • (lend a person money): From subsidize.

Noun

sub (plural subs)

  1. Abbreviation of submarine.
  2. Short for submarine sandwich.: a sandwich made on a long bun.
  3. (nautical) Clipping of submersible.
  4. (informal) Clipping of substitute, often in sports or teaching.
  5. (British, informal, often in plural) Clipping of subscription (a payment made for membership of a club, etc.)
  6. (Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle.
  7. (computing, programming) Clipping of subroutine. (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)
  8. (colloquial) Clipping of subeditor.
  9. (colloquial) Clipping of subcontractor.
  10. (slang) Clipping of subwoofer.
  11. (publishing, colloquial) Clipping of submission (of a work for publication)
  12. (BDSM, informal) Clipping of submissive.
  13. (colloquial, dated) Clipping of subordinate.
  14. (colloquial, dated) Clipping of subaltern.
  15. (colloquial, Internet) Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
  16. (colloquial) Short for subsistence money (part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished)
  17. (Internet slang) Short for subreddit.
Synonyms
  • (submarine sandwich): submarine, submarine sandwich; grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, po' boy, spuckie, torpedo, wedge
Hypernyms
  • (submarine sandwich): sandwich
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

  1. (US, informal) To substitute for.
  2. (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  3. (British, informal, soccer) 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.
  4. (British, informal, soccer, less common, often as "sub on") To bring on (a player) as a substitute.
    He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes.
  5. (British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  6. (slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
  7. (UK, slang, transitive) To lend (a person) money.
  8. (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
  9. (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
Derived terms
  • fansub

See also

  • switch (one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role)

Etymology 2

From Latin sub.

Preposition

sub

  1. Under.

Verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

  1. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  2. (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
    • 1997, Marina A. Lynch, S. M. O'Mara (editors), Ali D. Hames, D. Rickwood (series editors), Neuroscience Labfax, page 166,
      Ensure that gloves are worn when handling subbed slides. Although the following protocol describes subbing with gelatin, slides may also be coated with either 3-(triethoxysilyl-)propylamine (TESPA) or poly-L-lysine for in situ hybridization.

Related terms

Anagrams

  • Bus., SBU, UBS, USB, bus, bus.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sub.

Pronunciation

Noun

sub c (plural subs)

  1. submarine, sub

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sub.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sub]
  • Hyphenation: sub

Preposition

sub

  1. under, below

Antonyms

  • super

Ido

Preposition

sub

  1. under, below

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsub/
  • Rhymes: -ub
  • Hyphenation: sùb

Etymology 1

Clipping of subacqueo.

Noun

sub m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. skin-diver, scuba diver
    Synonym: subacqueo

Etymology 2

Clipping of English submissive.

Noun

sub m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. bottom, submissive (BDSM partner)
See also
  • dom

References

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upó. Compare Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó).

The usage with the accusative is from the pre-PIE directional, while with the ablative it is from both the locative, “under”, and the ablative, “from underneath”.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /sub/, [s̠ʊb]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sub/, [sub]

Preposition

sub (+ accusative, ablative)

  1. (with ablative)
    1. under, beneath
    2. behind
    3. at the feet of
    4. within, during
    5. about, around (time); just before, just after, shortly before, shortly after
  2. (with accusative)
    1. under, up to, up under, close to (of a motion)
    2. until, before, up to, about

Derived terms

  • sub rosā
  • subter
  • subtus
  • supīnus

Descendants

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sob
    • Galician: so
    • Portuguese: sob
  • Old Spanish: so
    • Spanish: so (in certain fossilized expressions)
  • → English: sub

References

  • “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sub in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sub in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • subt, supt — popular

Etymology

Inherited from Latin subtus, from sub. Compare Aromanian sum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sub/
  • Rhymes: -ub

Preposition

sub (+accusative)

  1. under, below, beneath, underneath

Derived terms

  • dedesubt

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsub/ [ˈsuβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -ub
  • Syllabification: sub

Preposition

sub

  1. under

Swedish

Noun

sub c

  1. (slang) a subwoofer, a bass loudspeaker; Contraction of subwoofer.

Declension

See also

  • subba
  • subbe

Anagrams

  • bus

Source: wiktionary.org