sub
/sʌb/ verb C2- To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
- To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
He/she/it subs · Past subbed · Past participle subbed · -ing form subbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sub
- He/she/it
- subs
- Past
- subbed
- Past participle
- subbed
- -ing form
- subbing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
“Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty’s navy,” cried Gregson, pompously, rubbing his fat hands and inflating his chest.
The actual official guardian of the papers is the famous government expert, Sir James Walter, whose decorations and sub-titles fill two lines of a book of reference.
Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds?
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