Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Nautical A vessel that is capable of operating submerged.
- noun A submarine sandwich.
- noun Baseball A pitch that is thrown with a low sidearm or underhand motion.
- adjective Beneath the surface of the water; undersea.
- adjective Thrown with or characterized by a low sidearm or underhand motion.
- intransitive verb To attack by submarine, especially with torpedoes.
- intransitive verb Sports To knock down with a blow to the legs.
- intransitive verb Baseball To pitch (a ball) with a low sidearm or underhand motion.
- intransitive verb To slide, drive, or be thrown under something.
- intransitive verb To ride in or serve as a crew member of a submarine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated or living under or in the sea, either at the bottom or below the surface; below the surface of the sea: as, submarine plants; a submarine telegraph.
- Occurring or carried on below the surface of the sea: as, submarine explorations; designed for use under the sea: as, submarine armor.
- A submarine plant.
- noun A vessel designed to navigate either entirely under water or on the surface, with a crew contained within it and with its own motive power; specifically, a submarine torpedo-boat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A submarine plant or animal.
- adjective Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea.
- adjective a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water.
- adjective See Telegraph cable, under
Telegraph . - adjective See
Torpedo , 2 (a). - noun Nav. A submarine boat; a ship that can travel under the surface of the water. Most such ships are ships of war, as part of a navy, but submarines are also used for oceanic research. Also called
sub and (from the German U-Boot)U-boat . - noun colloq. A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
- noun A
submarine sandwich .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Under water . - adjective Hidden or undisclosed.
- noun A
boat that can gounderwater . - noun A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
- noun baseball
Pitch delivered with anunderhand motion. - noun Any submarine
plant oranimal . - noun informal A
stowaway on a seagoing vessel. - verb To operate or serve on a submarine
- verb To
torpedo ; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb control a submarine
- verb throw with an underhand motion
- verb move forward or under in a sliding motion
- noun 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
- noun a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- adjective beneath the surface of the sea
- verb attack by submarine
- verb bring down with a blow to the legs
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the pink submarine is one of the great movie images of all time.
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Frogman Corps with extensive training in submarine lock-out/lock-in procedures, parachute insertion into open sea and subsequent amphibious assault operations.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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I almost looks like a whale or a submarine is baring down on them in the background.
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And the pink submarine is one of the great movie images of all time.
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Prickly Sharks are found mostly in submarine canyons and its numbers are being depleted due to overfishing.
Five Things You Probably Never Knew About the Prickly Shark | myFiveBest 2009
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The submarine is armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
HMS Astute, U.K. Nuclear Submarine, Grounded In Accident (VIDEO) AP 2010
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When his submarine is bombed, McClenahan gallantly chooses to save his crew over himself.
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When his submarine is bombed, McClenahan gallantly chooses to save his crew over himself.
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Danny Lawson/Associated Press The submarine is armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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And the pink submarine is one of the great movie images of all time.
chained_bear commented on the word submarine
Interesting story in a comment on Cornelis Drebbel.
October 5, 2017