sub

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sub / səb/ inf. • n. 1. a submarine. ∎ short for submarine sandwich.2. a subscription.3. a substitute.• v. (subbed, sub·bing) [intr.] act as a substitute for someone: he subbed for Scott as weatherman.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

sub

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sub2 short for, e.g., SUBORDINATE XVII; SUBALTERN XVIII; SUBSTITUTE, SUBSCRIPTION, SUBSIST (money) XIX.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

sub

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sub1 L. prep. under, underneath, beneath, at the bottom of (cf. next), corr. to Gr. hupó; the first word of various L. phrs. current from XVII, as sub judice ‘under a judge’, being the subject of judicial inquiry, sub rosa ‘under the rose’, secretly (of unkn. orig.), sub voce under the word (so-and-so in a list), abbrev. s.v.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD