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Submarine   /sˈəbmərˌin/  /sˌəbmərˈin/   Listen
Submarine

noun
1.
A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes.  Synonyms: pigboat, sub, U-boat.
2.
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.  Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.
adjective
1.
Beneath the surface of the sea.  Synonym: undersea.
verb
1.
Move forward or under in a sliding motion.
2.
Throw with an underhand motion.
3.
Bring down with a blow to the legs.
4.
Control a submarine.
5.
Attack by submarine.



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"Submarine" Quotes from Famous Books



... which the two latter were wrecked; but an impenetrable mystery conceals the fate of the four others. They may have run on unknown reefs. These reefs may be constantly heaving up from the depths of the ocean, by subterranean efforts; for a marine rock is merely the summit of a submarine mountain.[2] ...
— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper
... concern—m'lady's best parlor centerpiece, polished floor or cherished urn usually preferred; woe betide the luckless Buddie who denies his poor dead fag decent burial in the ubiquitous spit kit! To throw butts, gum wrappers, matches or anything but glances overboard, clew to the vulture eye of the lurking submarine, was a positive court martial offense. It was beginning to be evident ...
— The Greater Love • George T. McCarthy
... replied. "I won't let you see much of the ocean. We'll go to the Traymore, and spend the whole time dancing in the Submarine Grill." ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley
... becomes more difficult where inventions of the first class have been crowded upon each other in rapid and bewildering succession. But it will be admitted that in Edison one deals with a central figure of the great age that saw the invention and introduction in practical form of the telegraph, the submarine cable, the telephone, the electric light, the electric railway, the electric trolley-car, the storage battery, the electric motor, the phonograph, the wireless telegraph; and that the influence of these on the world's affairs has not been excelled at any time by that of ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... war on your own account in Ireland?" queried Anstruther. "You got a Boche submarine sunk and caught half the crew, ...
— Captain Jim • Mary Grant Bruce


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