sub

/sʌb/ · noun

Meaning

A submarine.
A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
A substitute, often in sports.
(often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
A subtitle.
A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
To substitute for.
To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
To replace (a player) with a substitute.
Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
To lend.
To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
Under.

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