sub

Meanings

Noun

• A submarine.
• A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
• A substitute, often in sports or teaching.
• A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
• A subtitle.
• A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
• A subeditor.
• A subcontractor.
• A subwoofer.
• A submissive.
• A subordinate.
• A subaltern.
• A subscription (or a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
• Subsistence money: part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.

Verb

• To substitute for.
• To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
• To replace (a player) with a substitute.
• Less commonly, and often as sub on, 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.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• submarine, submarine sandwich; grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, po' boy, spuckie, torpedo, wedge

Broader meaning words

• sandwich

Origin

• Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
• From Latin sub.