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See also: sub-, sub., and ␚

English

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: sŭb, IPA(key): /sʌb/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌb
  • Hyphenation: sub

Etymology 1

  • Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
  • (lend a person money): From subsidize.

Noun

sub (plural subs)

  1. Abbreviation of submarine.
    • 1989, James Cameron, The Abyss (motion picture), spoken by Alan "Hippy" Carnes (Todd Graff):
      You know, we got Russian subs creepin' around; anythin' goes wrong they can say whatever they want happened! Give their folks medals!
  2. Short for submarine sandwich.: a sandwich made on a long bun.
    We can get subs at that deli.
  3. (nautical) Clipping of submersible.
  4. (informal) Clipping of substitute, often in sports or teaching.
    With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs.
    She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.
    • 1930, Boy's Live, Philip Scruggs, There Can Be Victory, page 20:
      At any other school you would be playing varsity, and Wallace has you pigeon-holed on the subs." "Maybe he has his reasons," Jim replied. "And he hasn't pigeon-holed me on the subs yet — not this season.
  5. (British, informal, often in plural) Clipping of subscription (a payment made for membership of a club, etc.)
    • 1951, H. L. Gold, “Annual Report”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 2, number 6, page 2:
      According to the best available information, GALAXY has several times as many subs as any other science fiction magazine!
  6. (Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle.
    I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.
  7. (computing, programming) Clipping of subroutine. (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does)
    • 2002, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Perl in a nutshell:
      The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.
    • 2004, P. K. McBride, Introductory Visual Basic.NET, page 49:
      So far, all the subs and functions that we have used have been those built into the system, or those written to handle events from controls […]
  8. (colloquial) Clipping of subeditor.
  9. (colloquial) Clipping of subcontractor.
  10. (slang) Clipping of subwoofer.
  11. (publishing, colloquial) Clipping of submission (of a work for publication)
  12. (BDSM, informal) Clipping of submissive.
    • 2004, Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang:
      […] roleplay where a sub or bottom takes care of a top's bodily and hygiene needs […]
    • 2007, Laurell K Hamilton, The Harlequin:
      "It means that I'm both a sub and a dom." "Submissive and dominant," I said. He nodded.
    • 2008, Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex:
      Typically a dom and a sub have a more or less standard routine that they like to go through all the time.
  13. (colloquial, dated) Clipping of subordinate.
  14. (colloquial, dated) Clipping of subaltern.
    • 1911, J. Milton Hayes, The Green Eye of the Yellow God:
      He was known as 'Mad Carew' by the subs at Khatmandu,
      He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell;
      But for all his foolish pranks, he was worshipped in the ranks,
      And the Colonel's daughter smiled on him as well.
  15. (colloquial, Internet) Clipping of 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.
  16. (colloquial) Short for subsistence money (part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished)
  17. (Internet slang) Short for subreddit.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
computing: subroutine — see subroutine
subeditor — see subeditor
subcontractor — see subcontractor
subordinate — see subordinate
subwoofer — see subwoofer
subaltern — see subaltern

Verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

  1. (US, informal) To substitute for.
  2. (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  3. (British, informal, soccer) 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. (British, informal, soccer, less common, 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. (British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  6. (slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
  7. (UK, slang, transitive) To lend (a person) money.
    • 2011, Rowland Rivron, What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?:
      I kept up the pleasantries as we were drying our hands and, realizing I didn't have any change for the lodger, I asked him, one drummer to another like, if he could sub me a quid for the dish.
  8. (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
  9. (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
    • 2012, Alicia White, Jessica's Breakdown, page 53:
      You've never subbed before. Jessica will be expecting a man on stage that follows orders and enjoys what she's going to be doing. Do you want to be spanked? Possibly whipped?
    • 2012, Tiffany Reisz, Little Red Riding Crop:
      Wasn't like she'd never subbed before. She'd been a sub longer than she'd been a Dominatrix–ten years she'd spent in a collar.
Derived terms

See also

  • switch (one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role)

Etymology 2

From Latin sub.

Preposition

sub

  1. Under.

Verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

  1. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  2. (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
    • 1997, Marina A. Lynch, S. M. O'Mara (editors), Ali D. Hames, D. Rickwood (series editors), Neuroscience Labfax, page 166,
      Ensure that gloves are worn when handling subbed slides. Although the following protocol describes subbing with gelatin, slides may also be coated with either 3-(triethoxysilyl-)propylamine (TESPA) or poly-L-lysine for in situ hybridization.

Related terms

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sub.

Pronunciation

Noun

sub c (plural subs)

  1. submarine, sub

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sub.

Pronunciation

Preposition

sub

  1. under, below

Antonyms

Ido

Preposition

sub

  1. under, below

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsub/
  • Rhymes: -ub
  • Hyphenation: sùb

Etymology 1

Clipping of subacqueo.

Noun

sub m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. skin-diver, scuba diver
    Synonym: subacqueo

Etymology 2

Clipping of English submissive.

Noun

sub m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. bottom, submissive (BDSM partner)
See also

References

  1. ^ sub in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upó. Compare Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó).

The usage with the accusative is from the pre-PIE directional, while with the ablative it is from both the locative, “under”, and the ablative, “from underneath”.

Pronunciation

Preposition

sub (+ accusative, ablative)

  1. (with ablative)
    1. under, beneath
    2. behind
    3. at the feet of
    4. within, during
    5. about, around (time); just before, just after, shortly before, shortly after
  2. (with accusative)
    1. under, up to, up under, close to (of a motion)
    2. until, before, up to, about

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sob
    • Galician: so
    • Portuguese: sob
  • Old Spanish: so
    • Spanish: so (in certain fossilized expressions)
  • → English: sub

References

  • “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sub”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sub in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sub in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
    • in the open air: sub divo
    • to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
    • to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
    • to have to submit to the uncertainties of fortune; to be subject to Fortune's caprice: sub varios incertosque casus subiectum esse
    • to be comprised under the term 'fear.: sub metum subiectum esse
    • to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
    • graphic depiction: rerum sub aspectum paene subiectio (De Or. 3. 53. 202)
    • to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid
    • to sell a prisoner of war as a slave: aliquem sub corona vendere (B. G. 3. 16)
    • the case is still undecided: adhuc sub iudice lis est (Hor. A. P. 77)
    • to occupy the foot of a hill: considere sub monte (sub montis radicibus)
    • the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
    • to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: sub imperio et dicione alicuius esse

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin subtus, from sub. Compare Aromanian sum.

Pronunciation

Preposition

sub (+accusative)

  1. under, below, beneath, underneath

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsub/
  • Rhymes: -ub
  • Syllabification: sub

Preposition

sub

  1. under

Swedish

Noun

sub c

  1. (slang) a subwoofer, a bass loudspeaker; Contraction of subwoofer.

Declension

Declension of sub 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sub subben subbar subbarna
Genitive subs subbens subbars subbarnas

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