Subsistence vs Grub - What's the difference?
subsistence | grub | Related terms |
Real being; existence.
Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
Means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; That which furnishes support to animal life; as, a meager subsistence.
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(theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.
(countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
(uncountable, slang) Food.
(obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up .
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(slang) To supply with food.
Subsistence is a related term of grub.
As nouns the difference between subsistence and grub
is that subsistence is real being; existence while grub is (countable) an immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.As a verb grub is
to scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.subsistence
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* sustenance * (theology) hypostasisExternal links
* *grub
English
(wikipedia grub)Noun
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Synonyms
* (immature insect): larva * : nosh, tuckerDerived terms
* grubby * witchetty grubVerb
(grubb)- to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
- They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- (Charles Dickens)