Surface vs Sub - What's the difference?
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The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword The outside hull of a tangible object.
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, title= (lb) Outward or external appearance.
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*(Vicesimus Knox) (1752-1821)
*:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
(lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
:(Stocqueler)
To provide something with a surface.
To apply a surface to something.
To rise to the surface.
To come out of hiding.
For information or facts to become known.
To work a mine near the surface.
To appear or be found.
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 ,
As verbs the difference between surface and sub
is that surface is while sub is (us|informal) to substitute for or sub can be to coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.As a noun sub is
a submarine.As a preposition sub is
under.surface
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}
Synonyms
* overside * superfice (archaic)Derived terms
* surface mail * surficialVerb
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.
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- 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
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- 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.