Submariner vs Sidearm - What's the difference?
submariner | sidearm |
A member of the crew of a submarine.
(US, baseball) A pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.
A personal weapon normally carried in a holster on the body of a wielder for immediate use.
To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 19, author=Ben Shpigel, title=Medicine’s Loss Could Be the Mets’ Gain, work=New York Times
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As nouns the difference between submariner and sidearm
is that submariner is a member of the crew of a submarine while sidearm is a personal weapon normally carried in a holster on the body of a wielder for immediate use.As a verb sidearm is
to throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.As an adverb sidearm is
with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.submariner
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(en noun)- Jones was a submariner and could often confuse a batter with his unorthodox delivery.
Usage notes
* This word is generally pronounced like sub-'' + ''mariner'' (for example, in the U.K. Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy); however, since the prefix ''sub-'' was apparently deemed to imply inferiority (as in ''subpar'' or ''subhuman'') rather than the actual meaning of "under," this pronunciation may be considered offensive by non-submariners. The pronunciation ''submarine'' + ''-er , but with stress on third syllable, is often incorrectly deemed to be preferred by many or most U.S. submarine crew members today, when in fact to the submariner, it sounds as if they are being called inferior Marines. As evidence of submariners' collective lack of concern for the opinion of non-submariners on this matter, many submariners refer to themselves by the much more negative terms of "sewer-pipe" sailor, or "bubble-head."sidearm
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