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What does sub mean?

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