submarine

submarine

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ marine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sʌb.məˈɹiːn/

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• (US)
  • (noun) IPA^(key): /sʌb.məˈɹin/, /ˈsʌb.mə.ɹin/
  • (adjective) IPA^(key): /sʌb.məˈɹin/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

submarine (not comparable)

1. Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea.
   • 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Introduction, page xiv

     […] a Chorus of Sea-nymphs, who […] arrive, in a winged car, from the submarine palace of their father Oceanus.

2. Hidden or undisclosed.

   a submarine patent

   Synonyms: undersea, subsea

3. (baseball) Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.
   • 2005, John McCollister, Tales from the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates: Remembering "The Fam-A-Lee", →ISBN, page 109:

     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.

Derived terms

• submarine river
• submarine sandwich
• submariner

Translations

undersea

Armenian: ստորջրյա (hy) (storǰrya) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܚܹܝܬ ܝܲܡܡܵܝܵܐ‎ m (tḥēt yammāyā) Asturian: submarín Belarusian: падво́дны (padvódny) Bulgarian: подво́ден (podvóden) Catalan: submarí (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 水下的 (zh) (shuǐxià de), 海底的 (zh) (hǎidǐ de) Czech: podmořský (cs) m Danish: submarin Dutch: onderwater-, onderzees (nl) Esperanto: submara Finnish: merenalainen (fi), vedenalainen (fi) French: sous-marin (fr) Galician: submarino (gl) Georgian: წყალქვეშა (c̣q̇alkveša) German: submarin (de), unterseeisch (de), untermeerisch (de), unterwasser- Greek: υποβρύχιος (el) (ypovrýchios) Ancient: ὕφαλος (húphalos) Irish: fomhuirí, faoi uisce Italian: sottomarino (it), sommergibile (it) m Latin: navis submarina, submarina Latvian: zemūdens Macedonian: подморски (podmorski) Manx: fo-vooir, fo-honn Maori: raro wai Occitan: submarin Polish: podwodny (pl), podmorski (pl) Portuguese: submarino (pt) Romanian: submarin (ro) m or n Russian: подво́дный (ru) (podvódnyj), подмо́рский (podmórskij) (rare) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀дморскӣ Roman: pòdmorskī (sh) Slovak: podmorský Slovene: podmorski Spanish: submarino (es) Swedish: undervattens- Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: підво́дний (pidvódnyj)

See also

• subaquatic, subaqueous

Noun

A submarine.

submarine (plural submarines)

1. A boat that can go underwater.
2. A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
3. (baseball) A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
4. Any submarine plant or animal.
5. (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.

Synonyms

• (boat): sub, U-boat
• (sandwich): grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, poor boy, po' boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge

Antonyms

• (boat): surface ship

Hyponyms

• fleet submarine

Derived terms

• antisubmarine

Related terms

• submariner

Translations

undersea boat

Afrikaans: duikboot (af) Albanian: nëndetëse (sq) f Arabic: غَوَّاصَة‎ f (ḡawwāṣa) Armenian: սուզանավ (hy) (suzanav) Assamese: শিহুজাহাজ (xihuzahaz) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܵܡܘܿܨܬܵܐ‎ f (gāmoṣtā) Asturian: somarín m, submarín m Azerbaijani: su altı qayıq, sualtı qayıq Belarusian: падво́дная ло́дка f (padvódnaja lódka), субмары́на f (submarýna) Bengali: সাবমেরিন (sabmerin) Bulgarian: подво́дница f (podvódnica) Burmese: ရေငုပ်သင်္ဘော (my) (re-ngupsangbhau:) Catalan: submarí (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 潛艇／潜艇 (zh) (qiántǐng), 潛水艇／潜水艇 (zh) (qiánshuǐtǐng) Czech: ponorka (cs) f Danish: ubåd c Dutch: onderzeeër (nl) m, duikboot (nl) m Esperanto: submarŝipo Estonian: allveelaev (et) Faroese: kavbátur m Finnish: sukellusvene (fi) French: sous-marin (fr) m Galician: submarino (gl) m Georgian: წყალქვეშა ნავი (c̣q̇alkveša navi) German: Unterseeboot (de) n, U-Boot (de) n, Unterwasserboot n Greek: υποβρύχιο (el) n (ypovrýchio) Gujarati: પાણડૂબી (pāṇḍūbī) Haitian Creole: soumaren Hawaiian: mokuluʻu Hebrew: צוֹלֶלֶת‎ (he) f (tsolelet) Hindi: पनडुब्बी (hi) f (panḍubbī), सबमैरीन (sabmairīn) Hungarian: tengeralattjáró (hu) Icelandic: kafbátur (is) m Ido: submersonavo (io) Indonesian: kapal selam (id) Irish: fomhuireán m Italian: sottomarino (it) m, sommergibile (it) m Japanese: 潜水艦 (ja) (せんすいかん, sensuikan), サブマリン (sabumarin) Kazakh: сүңгуір қайық (süñguır qaiyq) Khmer: នាវាមុជទឹក (niəviə muc tɨk) Korean: 잠수함(潛水艦) (ko) (jamsuham) Kyrgyz: суу астындагы кайык (suu astındagı kayık) Lao: ເຮືອດຳນ້ຳ (hư̄a dam nam) Latvian: zemūdene f Lithuanian: submarinas m Macedonian: подморница f (podmornica) Malay: kapal selam (ms) Malayalam: മുങ്ങിക്കപ്പൽ (ml) (muṅṅikkappal), അന്തർവാഹിനി (ml) (antaṟvāhini) Maltese: sottomarini Maori: waka-ruku-wai, waka whakatakere Mongolian: Cyrillic: шумбагч онгоц (šumbagč ongoc), шумбадаг онгоц (šumbadag ongoc), шунгал онгоц (šungal ongoc) (Inner Mongolia) Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł táłtłʼááh naagháhígíí Niuean: vakauku Norwegian: Bokmål: ubåt m, undervannsbåt m Nynorsk: ubåt m, undervassbåt m Persian: زیردریایی‎ (fa) (zirdaryâyi) Polish: okręt podwodny (pl) m, łódź podwodna (pl) f Portuguese: submarino (pt) m Romanian: submarin (ro) n Russian: подво́дная ло́дка (ru) f (podvódnaja lódka), подло́дка (ru) f (podlódka), субмари́на (ru) f (submarína) Scottish Gaelic: bàt'-aigeil m, bàta-tumaidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀дмо̄рница f Roman: pòdmōrnica (sh) f Sinhalese: සබ්මැරීනය (sabmærīnaya) Slovak: ponorka f Slovene: podmornica (sl) f Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: podnurjak m, podmórnik m, podmórska łódź f Spanish: submarino (es) m Swahili: nyambizi (sw), sabmarini (sw) Swedish: ubåt (sv) c, undervattensbåt c Tagalog: submarino Tajik: киштии зериобӣ (kištiyi zeriobī) Telugu: జలాంతర్గామి (te) (jalāntargāmi) Thai: เรือดำน้ำ (rʉʉa-dam-náam) Turkish: denizaltı (tr), tahtelbahir (tr) (archaic) Turkmen: suwasty gämi Ukrainian: підво́дний чо́вен m (pidvódnyj čóven), субмари́на f (submarýna) Urdu: آبدوز‎ (ābdoz) Uyghur: سۇ ئاستى كېمىسى‎ (su asti këmisi) Uzbek: suv osti kemasi Vietnamese: tàu ngầm (vi) Volapük: daivanaf, dismelanaf Welsh: llong danfor (cy), suddlong (cy) West Frisian: ûnderseeboat n Yiddish: סובמאַרין‎ (submarin)

sandwich

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: subi Russian: субмари́на (ru) f (submarína) Spanish: sándwich submarino m

Verb

submarine (third-person singular simple present submarines, present participle submarining, simple past and past participle submarined)

1. (intransitive) To operate or serve on a submarine.
2. (transitive) To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
   • 2007 April 13, The Associated Press, “Shares Up as Investors Ponder Retail Data”, in New York Times‎:

     “We’re really at the point of chicken, where the Fed is trying to ward off inflation without submarining the economy.”

3. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sink or submerge oneself.
   • 2003, Homer H. Grantham, Thunder in the Morning: A World War II Memoir (page 1)

     The second their center snapped the ball, I submarined between the big guy's legs and tackled the halfback.

   • 2013, Gordon MacDonald, Building Below the Waterline (page 234)

     Ten days later, the full force of what happened crushed me. I submarined into the depths of disillusionment.

4. (intransitive, automotive) 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.

Further reading

• submarine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barnumise, semiurban

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

submarine

1. inflection of submarin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular