Sub vs Bub - What's the difference?
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A submarine.
A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
(US, informal) A substitute.
(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 ,
(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?
* 2007 , Laurell K Hamilton, The Harlequin
* 2008 , Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex
(Internet, informal) A subtitle.
(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
* 2004 , P. K. McBride, Introductory Visual Basic.NET (page 49)
(colloquial, dated) A subordinate.
(colloquial, dated) A subaltern.
(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.
(British, informal, football) Less commonly, and often as sub on , to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
(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?
(slang) To subscribe.
(BDSM) To take a submissive role.
* Alicia White, Jessica's Breakdown (page 53)
* 2012 , Tiffany Reisz, Little Red Riding Crop
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 ,
(slang, historical) An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
* 1838 , Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors ,
A woman's breast.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Penguin 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 631:
*:‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs .’
A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
* 1857 , T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin'', '' , Volume 49,
* 1857 , Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame'', George R. Graham, ''Graham?s Illustrated Magazine , Volume 50,
A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
As nouns the difference between sub and bub
is that sub is a submarine while bub is an alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.As verbs the difference between sub and bub
is that sub is to substitute for while bub is to throw out in bubbles; to bubble.As a preposition sub
is under.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)- We can get subs at that deli.
- With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs .
- She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate.
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.
- ...roleplay where a sub or bottom takes care of a top's bodily and hygiene needs...
- "It means that I'm both a sub and a dom." "Submissive and dominant," I said. He nodded.
- Typically a dom and a sub have a more or less standard routine that they like to go through all the time.
- I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.
- The default accessor can be overridden by declaring a sub of the same name in the package.
- 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...
Synonyms
* (submarine sandwich) grinder, hoagieHypernyms
* (submarine sandwich) sandwichVerb
(subb)- He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.
- ''He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.Verb
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
* * * ----bub
English
Etymology 1
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.Noun
(-)page 662,
- Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.
Etymology 2
Contraction of (bubby).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Either a corruption of (brother), a modification of '' ("close [male] relation"), and is thus cognate to English ''boy'', ''babe'', ''baby'' and ''bully .Noun
(en noun)page 23,
- So he changed his brusque manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended to be extremely conciliatory :
- ‘ What?s your name, bub ? ’
- ‘ The last one, Sir ? ’ asked bub , looking up.
page 398,
- Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.
