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Sandwich vs Sub - What's the difference?

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Sub is a hypernym of sandwich.



As nouns the difference between sandwich and sub

is that sandwich is a dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food while sub is a submarine.

As verbs the difference between sandwich and sub

is that sandwich is to place one item between two other, usually flat, items while sub is to substitute for.

As an adjective sandwich

is of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

As a proper noun Sandwich

is a town in Kent, south-east England, one of the historic Cinque Ports.

As a preposition sub is

under.

sandwich

English

(wikipedia sandwich) (Structured composite sandwich)

Noun

(es)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Hyponyms

    * hamburger, burger * -burger * patty melt

    Derived terms

    {{der3, club sandwich , Dagwood sandwich , Dutch sandwich , knuckle sandwich , open sandwich , sandwich spread , sandwich board , sandwichable , sandwichy , soup sandwich}}

    Descendants

    * Arabic: * Catalan: (l) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Czech: * Danish: (l) * Dutch: (l) * English: (l) (eye dialect) * Esperanto: * French: (l) *: Norman French: (l) * German: (l) * Greek: * Hawaiian: (l) * Hindi: * Hungarian: (l) * Japanese: * Jèrriais: (l) * Korean: * Marshallese: * Norwegian: (l) * Persian: * Portuguese: (Brazil), (l) (Portugal) * Romanian: * Russian: * Serbo-Croatian: *: Cyrillic: *: Roman: * Sinhalese: * Slovene: * Spanish: * Swedish: (l) * Turkish: * Urdu: * Vietnamese: * Volapük:

    Verb

    (es)
  • To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
  • (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

    • 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 ----

    sub

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened form of any of various words beginning sub- , such as submarine, subroutine, substitute, subscription. The sandwich is so called because the bun's cylindrical shape resembles the shape of a submarine.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A submarine.
  • A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
    • We can get subs at that deli.
  • (US, informal) A substitute.
    • With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs .
    She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.
  • (British, informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another player part way through the game.
  • * 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.
  • (British, informal, often in plural) Short for subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
  • (informal) A submissive in BDSM practices.
  • * 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.
  • (Internet, informal) A subtitle.
    • I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.
  • (computing, programming) A 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...
  • (colloquial, dated) A subordinate.
  • (colloquial, dated) A subaltern.
    • Synonyms
    * (submarine sandwich) grinder, hoagie
    Hypernyms
    * (submarine sandwich) sandwich

    Verb

    (subb)
  • (US, informal) To substitute for.
  • (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
  • (British, informal, football) 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.
  • (British, informal, football) Less commonly, and 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.
  • (British) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
  • (UK, slang, transitive) To lend.
  • * 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.
  • (slang) To subscribe.
  • (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
  • * 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.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) sub.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Under.

    • Verb

  • To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
  • (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an 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.

    See also

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

    Anagrams

    * * * ----