[
US
/ˈsəb/
]
[ 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
- They will also force schools to put more emphasis on teaching basic subjects.
- 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.
- The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
- There will always be debate about who deserves honours, all of it highly subjective.
- The tax assessor determined that the property was subject to taxation based on its infrequent use for religious purposes. Christianity Today
- 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
- 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
- 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.