different between submarine vs pantechnicon

English

Etymology

sub- +? marine. Doublet of Fomorian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?b.m???i?n/
• (US)
  • (noun) IPA^(key): /s?b.m???in/, /?s?b.m?.?in/
  • (adjective) IPA^(key): /s?b.m???in/
• Rhymes: -i?n

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", 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.

Derived terms

• submarine river
• submarine sandwich
• submariner

Translations

See also

• subaquatic, subaqueous

Noun

submarine (plural submarines)

1. A boat that can go underwater.
2. A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
3. (baseball) 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

Derived terms

• antisubmarine

Related terms

• submariner

Translations

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.
3. (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.

Further reading

• submarine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Barnumise, semiurban

German

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

English

Etymology

From Pantechnicon, a 19th-century firm which owned a building with a Greek-style facade of Doric columns in Motcomb Street, Belgrave Square, London, UK, with a picture gallery, a furniture shop, a shop selling carriages, and a warehouse for storing customers’ furniture and other items. The firm used large horse-drawn vans to collect and deliver their customers' property, which came to be known as Pantechnicon vans.

The word was coined by the firm from pan- (“prefix meaning ‘all’”) (from Ancient Greek ??? (pân), neuter form of ??? (pâs, “all, every”)) + ???????? (tekhnikón), neuter singular of ???????? (tekhnikós, “technical”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pæn?t?kn?k?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæn?t?kn?k(?)n/, /-n??k?n/
• Hyphenation: pan?tech?ni?con

Noun

pantechnicon (plural pantechnicons)

1. (chiefly Britain) A building or place housing shops or stalls where all sorts of (especially exotic) manufactured articles are collected for sale. [from 19th c.]
2. (chiefly Britain) Originally pantechnicon van: a van, especially a large moving or removal van. [from 19th c.]
   • 1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, 1910s, OCLC 225424669, page 69:

     The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose. […] [T]he onrush of the pantechnicon constituted a clear crisis. Lower down the gradient of Brougham Street was more dangerous, and it was within the possibilities that people inhabiting the depths of the street might find themselves pitched out of bed by the sharp corner of a pantechnicon that was determined to be a pantechnicon.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: Or Buried Alive: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, ?ISBN, page 426:

     In fact, as they later found, the auxiliary vehicle was a very large removers' van – the kind known as a pantechnicon.

Synonyms

• moving truck, moving van
• removal van

Derived terms

• pantech (Britain)
• pantech van (Australia)

Translations

Further reading

• Pantechnicon van on Wikipedia.Wikipedia