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UK
/sˈʌbməɹˌiːn/
]
[ US /ˈsəbmɝˌin, ˌsəbmɝˈin/ ]
[ US /ˈsəbmɝˌin, ˌsəbmɝˈin/ ]
VERB
- control a submarine
-
move forward or under in a sliding motion
The child was injured when he submarined under the safety belt of the car -
attack by submarine
The Germans submarined the Allies - bring down with a blow to the legs
- throw with an underhand motion
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
ADJECTIVE
- beneath the surface of the sea
How To Use submarine In A Sentence
- On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
- Despite going to sea on a boat with no windows, no fantail, no helipad or even a hatch to allow in some tension-breaking fresh salt air, submariners are still sailors at heart.
- The back section is fitted with the nuclear reactor, which powers the submarine. Times, Sunday Times
- As the water tumbles over the huge boulders forming a great cloak of foam, the dorsal fins of the salmon along their blue/black backs pierce the sudsy water like an emerging submarine.
- This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. What's the carbon footprint of ... a volcano?
- The submarine dived to avoid being seen.
- We know that the type of escape hatch that's on the Kursk is the same that's been on the Kito (ph) class submarines, and these -- the LR5 has exercise with in the -- with a NATO Polish Kito class submarines. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Russian Submarine Accident: Rear Admiral Cobbald Discusses Rescue Equipment Being Sent Out to Site - August 18, 2000
- Also, just before the Russian submariner opens the torpedo tube, he is asked "What do you think is in there? Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Small Victories' (S04E01)
- The research is designed to determine the number of pygmy blue whales that visit the area, which is also popular with warships and submarines.
- Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
