submarine
/sʌb.məˈɹiːn/
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Northern England/sʊb.məˈɹiːn/
submarine adjective: being, relating to, or made for use underwater, especially beneath the sea. Also the alternative form of submarine sandwich.
Adjective
submarine (not comparable)
- Being, relating to, or made for use underwater, especially beneath the sea.
- Near-synonym: submerged (synonymous in "being underwater" sense)
- […] a Chorus of Sea-nymphs, who[…] arrive, in a winged car, from the submarine palace of their father Oceanus.1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Introduction, page xiv
- Hidden or undisclosed.
- a submarine patent
- Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
- When Peterson saw the unusual pitching motion of Kent Tekulve—the submarine pitcher who threw baseballs as though they were coming right out of the rubber slab on the mound—he was the first of many who tried to change Tekulve's delivery.2005, John McCollister, Tales from the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates: Remembering "The Fam-A-Lee", →ISBN, page 109
Noun
submarine (plural submarines)
- A boat that can go underwater.
- Me: *staring out window* looks like rain
Submarine captain: what
Me: but like more2020 January 23, @PleaseBeGneiss, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2024
- Synonyms:
- U-boat
- Antonyms:
- surface ship
- Me: *staring out window* looks like rain
- A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
- Any submarine plant or animal.
- A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
Verb
submarine (third-person singular simple present submarines, present participle submarining, simple past and past participle submarined)
- To operate or serve on a submarine.
- To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- “We’re really at the point of chicken, where the Fed is trying to ward off inflation without submarining the economy.”2007 April 13, The Associated Press, “Shares Up as Investors Ponder Retail Data”, in New York Times
- To sink or submerge oneself.
- The second their center snapped the ball, I submarined between the big guy's legs and tackled the halfback.2003, Homer H. Grantham, Thunder in the Morning: A World War II Memoir, page 1
- Ten days later, the full force of what happened crushed me. I submarined into the depths of disillusionment.2013, Gordon MacDonald, Building Below the Waterline, page 234
- To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).
- The seatback should always be up while driving so that the occupant doesn't submarine and potentially suffer severe internal injury.
Also used as
submarine is also the alternative form of submarine sandwich.
submarine meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
submarine in Hindi
- undersea boat
- पनडुब्बी panḍubbī
submarine in Urdu
- undersea boat
- آبْدوز ābdoz, آب دوز āb doz
submarine in Bengali
- undersea boat
- সাবমেরিন sabmerin
submarine in Telugu
- undersea boat
- జలాంతర్గామి jalāntargāmi
More languagesFewer languages
- submarine in Malayalam
- മുങ്ങിക്കപ്പൽ muṅṅikkappal, അന്തർവാഹിനി antaṟvāhini
- submarine in Punjabi
- ਪਣਡੁੱਬੀ paṇḍubbī
- submarine in Gujarati
- પાણડૂબી pāṇḍūbī
- submarine in Sinhala
- සබ්මැරීනය sabmærīnaya
- submarine in Assamese
- শিহুজাহাজ xihuzahaz
- submarine in Tagalog
- submarino
- submarine in Arabic
- غَوَّاصَة ḡawwāṣa
- submarine in Malay
- kapal selam
- submarine in Indonesian
- kapal selam
- submarine in Thai
- เรือดำน้ำ rʉʉa-dam-náam
- submarine in Vietnamese
- tàu ngầm
- submarine in Myanmar
- ရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော re-ngupsangbhau:
Examples of submarine in a sentence
- The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
- The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.
- The crew of the submarine quickly got used to hot bedding.
Synonyms of submarine
Antonyms
Forms of submarine
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (rare) | sub-marine |
| Noun | |
| plural | submarines |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | submarines |
| present participle | submarining |
| past participle | submarined |
| past | submarined |
Origin of submarine
From sub- + marine.
Words formed from submarine
- antisubmarine
- anti-submarine
- Italian submarine sandwich
- midget-submarine
- minisubmarine
- narcosubmarine
- nonsubmarine
- nuclear submarine
- pizza submarine sandwich
- screen door on a submarine
- submarine ace
- submarine chaser
- submarine fan
- submarineful
- submarinelike
- submarine paradox
- submarine patent
- submarine pitch
- submariner
- submarine river
- submarine sandwich
- submarinism
- submarinist
- submarium
- unidentified submarine object
- vanilla submarine
- when they go low, we go submarine
Phrases with submarine
Words that rhyme with submarine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
- lien
Questions about submarine
- What does submarine mean?
- Submarine means being, relating to, or made for use underwater, especially beneath the sea.
- What is submarine in Hindi?
- Submarine in Hindi is पनडुब्बी (panḍubbī). See Submarine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is submarine?
- Submarine can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce submarine?
- Submarine is pronounced /sʌb.məˈɹiːn/ (UK).
Words near submarine in the dictionary
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