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submarine

[n. suhb-muh-reen, suhb-muh-reen; adj., v. suhb-muh-reen]

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noun

a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.

something situated or living under the surface of the sea, as a plant or animal.

Chiefly Northeastern and North Midland U.S. a hero sandwich.

adjective

situated, occurring, operating, or living under the surface of the sea: a submarine mountain.

of, pertaining to, or carried on by a submarine or submarines: submarine warfare.

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verb (used without object)

to participate in the operating of a submarine.

to move or slide under something.

Slang.

to be thrown under the steering wheel of the vehicle one is driving during a frontal crash.

to be thrown out of one's seat belt in such a crash.

verb (used with object)

to attack or sink by submarine.

Origin:
1640–50; 1895–1900 for def. 1; sub- + marine

Related forms

an·ti·sub·ma·rine, adjective

Regional variation note
3. See hero sandwich.

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Example Sentences

Each successive submarine disaster seems worse than the one before.

Delay would risk the loss of vital technical skills, which would make a future submarine more difficult to build.

Submarine canyons are similar to those on land in shape and form, but are cut by currents on the ocean floor.

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Each successive submarine disaster seems worse than the one before.

Delay would risk the loss of vital technical skills, which would make a future submarine more difficult to build.

Submarine canyons are similar to those on land in shape and form, but are cut by currents on the ocean floor.

The deep basins under the oceans are carpeted with lava that spewed from submarine volcanoes and solidified.

The demo skips ahead to a new section, and water is filling the submarine.

Let's hope he was in some sort of bathyscaphe or deep-sea exploration vessel, and not in a regular submarine.

Danger zones include areas where there is a lot of loose sediment perched on the brinks of steep submarine slopes, he said.

The scientists first trained both seals to locate a small propeller-driven submarine.

It's not the diplomacy-minded former president who is ready to spy, it's the secretive nuclear submarine named for him.

True twenty-first century sea power will be wielded by the submarine.

The article only considers surface permafrost, not submarine permafrost.

But the state monopoly is keeping its grip over access to ultra-high capacity submarine cables.

They can also take sharp turns and change directions instantaneously, darting in a fraction of the time a submarine can.

King, commander of the submarine base and in charge of the work of lifting the.

The arrival of new submarine fibre-optic cables will boost.

Travis and the guys have decided to spend their rainy day building a submarine out of cheap, spare parts laying.

Submarine with a chain saw for eco-friendly logging.

Soon after, there were reports of a submarine eruption.

In the dark and rocky fissures of a submarine plateau, hundreds of odd-looking fish and octopus gather to care for their eggs.

We want to say the submarine forces now have their own aircraft carrier.

Imagine a day when a submarine could blast a target to smithereens using nothing more than acoustic energy.

Video and sonar data from the submarine are displayed as a volleyball-sized hologram.

Now the coolest part of all this how you can map these submarine channel features from cliff face to cliff face.

Imagine a nuclear submarine sinking in miles-deep oceans.

Haitian communication deficits to submarine fiber network.

He and his team showed that the voltages induced in the submarine cables would be large enough to measure.

Yokosuka turned it into a remote controlled submarine.

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World English Dictionary

submarine (ˈsʌbməˌriːn, ˌsʌbməˈriːn)

—n
1.	Often shortened to: sub a vessel, esp one designed for warfare, capable of operating for protracted periods below the surface of the sea
2.	(modifier)
	a. of or relating to a submarine: a submarine captain
	b. occurring or situated below the surface of the sea: a submarine cable

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Word Origin & History

submarine

1648, from sub- + marine. The noun meaning "submarine boat" is from 1899. The short form sub is first recorded 1917. Submarine sandwich (1955) so called from the shape of the roll.

Slang Dictionary

submarine definition

n.
and sub; hoagy; torpedo; grinder; poor boy; hero. a long sandwich containing many different foods. (Sometimes many feet long. It is cut into smaller segments for serving a group. Usually contains sliced meats and cheese, as well as tomatoes and onions. Terms vary depending on where you are in the country.) : He ordered a submarine, but he couldn't finish it.
n.
a large marijuana cigarette. : Look at the size of that sub!
n.
[menstrual] tampon. : My God! I'm out of submarines!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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