submarine
English
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈsʌb.mə.ɹin/
- (adjective) IPA(key): /sʌb.məˈɹin/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Adjective
submarine (not comparable)
- Undersea.
- 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.
- 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Introduction, page xiv
- Hidden or undisclosed.
- a submarine patent
- (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", page 109, →ISBN
- 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", page 109, →ISBN
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undersea
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Antonyms
- (boat): surface ship
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undersea boat
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Verb
submarine (third-person singular simple present submarines, present participle submarining, simple past and past participle submarined)
- (intransitive) To operate or serve on a submarine.
- (transitive) To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) 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.
- 2003, Homer H. Grantham, Thunder in the Morning: A World War II Memoir (page 1)
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