submarineとは

発音

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌb.mə.ɹin/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /sʌb.məˈɹin/
• 韻: -iːn

形容詞

submarine (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. Hidden or undisclosed.

   a submarine patent

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.

派生語

• submarine river
• submarine sandwich
• submariner

参考

• subaquatic, subaqueous

名詞

A submarine.

submarine (複数形 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.

同意語

• (boat): sub, U-boat
• (sandwich): grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, poor boy, po' boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge

反意語

• (boat): surface ship

派生語

• antisubmarine

関連する語

• submariner

動詞

submarine (三人称単数 現在形 submarines, 現在分詞 submarining, 過去形および過去分詞形 submarined)

1. (intransitive) To operate or serve on a submarine.
2. (transitive) To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
   • 2007 April 13, The Associated Press, “Shares Up as Investors Ponder Retail Data”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “We’re really at the point of chicken, where the Fed is trying to ward off inflation without submarining the economy.”

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.

アナグラム

• semiurban