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語源

From sub- +‎ marine.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sʌb.məˈɹiːn/
• (Northern England) IPA: /sʊb.məˈɹiːn/
• (Scotland) IPA: /sʌb.məˈɾin/
• (Wales) IPA: /sʌb.məˈɾiːn/
• (米国発音)
  • (noun) IPA: /sʌb.məˈɹin/, /ˈsʌb.mə.ɹin/
  • IPA: (adjective) /sʌb.məˈɹin/
• 韻: -iːn

形容詞

submarine (not comparable)

1. Being, relating to, or made for use underwater, especially beneath the sea.

   Near-synonym: submerged (synonymous in "being underwater" sense)

   • 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", →ISBN, page 109:

     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.

参考

• subaquatic, subaqueous

名詞

submarine (plural submarines)

1. (nautical) A boat that can go underwater.

   Alternative form: sub

   Synonym: U-boat

   Antonym: surface ship

   Hypernyms: boat < watercraft, vessel < vessel < vehicle

   Hyponyms: fleet submarine, minisubmarine, submersible

   • 2020 January 23, @PleaseBeGneiss, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 29 June 2024:

     Me: *staring out window* looks like rain
     Submarine captain: what
     Me: but like more

2. Alternative form of submarine sandwich.
3. (baseball) A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
4. Any submarine plant or animal.
5. (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.

派生語

関連する語

• submariner

動詞

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.
   • 2007 April 13, The Associated Press, “Shares Up as Investors Ponder Retail Data”, in New York Times‎:

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

3. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) 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.

4. (intransitive, automotive) To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).

   The seatback should always be up while driving so that the occupant doesn't submarine and potentially suffer severe internal injury.

参照

Further reading

• submarine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Barnumise, semiurban