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Noun sub- has 2 senses
- bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep - 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
--1 is a kind of sandwich
- submarine, pigboat, sub, U-boat - a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
--2 is a kind of submersible, submersible warship
--2 has parts:
--2 has particulars:
Verb sub- has 1 sense
- substitute, sub, stand in, fill in - be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
--1 is one way to exchange, change, interchange
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