Synonyms of the word

sub

• n. A submarine.
• n. A submarine sandwich—a sandwich made on a long bun.
• n. (US, informal) A substitute.
• n. (Britain, informal) A substitute in a football (soccer) game: someone who comes on in place of another…
• n. (Britain, informal, often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
• n. (informal) A submissive in BDSM practices.
• n. (Internet, informal) A subtitle.
• n. (computing, programming) A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from…
• n. (colloquial) A subeditor.
• n. (colloquial) A subcontractor.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A subordinate.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A subaltern.
• v. (US, informal) To substitute for.
• v. (US, informal) To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
• v. (Britain, informal, soccer) To replace (a player) with a substitute.
• v. (Britain, informal, soccer) Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
• v. (Britain) To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
• v. (Britain, slang, transitive) To lend.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To subscribe.
• v. (BDSM) To take a submissive role.
• prep. Under.
• v. To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
• v. (microscopy) To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

bomber

• n. A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
• n. A person who sets bombs, especially as an act of terrorism.
• n. A bomber jacket.
• n. (US) A 22-ounce beer bottle.
• adj. (climbing, slang) Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear (n.b…

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

exchange

• n. An act of exchanging or trading.
• n. A place for conducting trading.
• n. A telephone exchange.
• n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
• n. A conversation.
• n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
• n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
• n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
• v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
• v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

grinder

• n. One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
• n. (anatomical) A molar.
• n. A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually…
• n. (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
• n. A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
• n. The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
• n. (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.

hero

• n. Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary deeds.
• n. A role model.
• n. The main protagonist in a work of fiction.
• n. (poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare:…
• n. (US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.
• n. (food styling, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed.

hoagie

• n. (US, central and eastern Pennsylvania) A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine…

hoagy

• n. Alternative form of hoagie.

interchange

• n. An act of interchanging.
• n. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
• n. (rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at…
• v. (transitive) to switch (each of two things).
• v. (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange.
• v. (intransitive) to swap or change places.
• v. (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary.

pigboat

• n. (slang, archaic) submarine.

sandwich

• n. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other…
• n. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other…
• n. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
• v. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items.
• v. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
• adj. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

submarine

• adj. Undersea.
• adj. Hidden or undisclosed.
• adj. (baseball) Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
• n. A boat that can go underwater.
• n. A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
• n. (baseball) Pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
• n. Any submarine plant or animal.
• n. (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
• v. To operate or serve on a submarine.
• v. To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.

submersible

• adj. Able to be submerged.
• n. (Britain) A small nonmilitary, non-nuclear submarine for exploration.
• n. (Britain) A retroactive term used for non-nuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed "true submarines".
• n. (Britain) A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed "true submersibles", because…
• n. (US) A very small "baby" submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to…

substitute

• v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
• v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
• v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
• n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
• n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
• n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

torpedo

• n. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
• n. A fish having wings that generate electric current, a kind of electric ray.
• n. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
• n. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
• n. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications,…
• n. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
• n. (rail transport, US) a small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning…
• n. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
• n. An automobile with a torpedo body.
• v. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
• v. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
• v. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

wedge

• n. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered…
• n. A piece (of food, etc.) having this shape.
• n. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting…
• n. (figuratively) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• n. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted…
• n. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• n. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• n. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
• n. (typography, US) háček.
• n. (phonetics) The IPA character <ʌ>, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• n. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• n. (meteorology) a wedge tornado.
• v. To support or secure using a wedge.
• v. To force into a narrow gap.
• v. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
• v. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
• n. (Britain, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical…

zep

• n. (US, dialectal) A certain type of submarine sandwich.