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US
/ˈsəb/
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[ UK /sˈʌb/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌb/ ]
NOUN
- a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- 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
VERB
-
be a substitute
The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet
The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague
How To Use sub In A Sentence
- Added to which there is a large increase in the fees receivable in 1994 to a level of almost £123,000 which accounts for the large increase in the gross profit over the previous and subsequent years.
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- They will also force schools to put more emphasis on teaching basic subjects.
- For a very long time I loved the idea of writing but did very little - I published a few stories, and workshopped myself into submission.
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- “Come, come, clerk,” continued he, “catechise him a little on this subject.” The Adventures of Roderick Random
- A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.
- She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
- - PBL Media and ninemsn jointly purchased 35% of 3P the owner of Mathletics, a subscription driven website that has 400K students in Aust + NZ using it. 400K Mathletics X $99 Per Annum = 35% ninemsn.
- The CDC asks states to report confirmed flu deaths by age group but not by subtype, meaning H1N1 deaths are not necessarily tracked. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines