different between submarined vs submarine

English

Verb

submarined

1. simple past tense and past participle of submarine

Anagrams

• Barnumised, Bermudians

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