sub

Meaning of sub

noun
  1. A submarine.
  2. A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
    We can get subs at that deli.
  3. A substitute, often in sports.
    She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.
  4. (often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
  5. A subtitle.
    I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.
  6. A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
  7. A subeditor.
  8. A subcontractor.
  9. (BDSM) A submissive.
  10. A subordinate.
  11. A subaltern.
  12. A subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
    I'm totally stoked; just got 10 new subs after my last video.
  13. Subsistence money: part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
verb
  1. To substitute for.
  2. To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  3. 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. Less commonly, and 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. To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  6. To lend.
  7. To subscribe.
  8. (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
verb
  1. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  2. To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

preposition

Under.

Information about sub

Hyphenation of sub

sub

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • sub is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sub synonyms

Meaning bomber:

bomber, grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, submarine, torpedo, wedge, zep

Meaning submarine:

submarine, pigboat

Meaning substitute:

substitute

Anagrams of sub

bus, UBS, USB

Words that rhyme with sub

minisub, hexsub

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