Sandwich vs Russia - What's the difference?
sandwich | russia |
A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
(by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
(figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
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(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.
A country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The Country extends from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific Ocean, and was part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991. Co-official name - Russian Federation,'' formerly the ''Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic'' (RSFSR), Capital and largest city ''Moscow
(historical, informal) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
(historical) The Russian Empire.
(historical, dated) Rus, the medieval East Slavic state.
(dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from the Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia or Kievan Russia).
*1842 , George Eliot, "Letter to Cara Bray", Selections from George Eliot's letters , page 24:
As a noun sandwich
is sandwich.As a proper noun russia is
russia.sandwich
English
(wikipedia sandwich) (Structured composite sandwich)Noun
(es)Synonyms
* SeeHyponyms
* hamburger, burger * -burger * patty meltDerived terms
{{der3, club sandwich , Dagwood sandwich , Dutch sandwich , knuckle sandwich , open sandwich , sandwich spread , sandwich board , sandwichable , sandwichy , soup sandwich}}Descendants
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Adjective
(-)Usage notes
* The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich. English eponyms English refractory feminine rhymes ----russia
English
(wikipedia Russia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias – the empire over self.