Définition "sub" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

sub n

1 short for several words beginning with sub-, such as subaltern, subeditor, submarine, subordinate, subscription, substandard, substitute, and substratum (in photography)

2 (Brit)
informal an advance payment of wages or salary, (Formal term) subsistence allowance vb , subs, subbing, subbed

3 to serve as a substitute

4 Informal to act as a substitute (for)

5 (Brit)
informal to grant or receive (an advance payment of wages or salary)

6 Informal short for → subedit

7 (Photog) to apply a substratum to (a film or plate base)

sub. abbrev. for

1 subeditor

2 subito (in music)

3 subscription

4 substitute

5 suburb(an)

6 subway

sub- prefix

1 situated under or beneath
subterranean

2 secondary in rank; subordinate
subeditor

3 falling short of; less than or imperfectly
subarctic

4 forming a subdivision or subordinate part of a whole
subcommittee

5 (in chemistry)

a indicating that a compound contains a relatively small proportion of a specified element
suboxide

b indicating that a salt is basic salt
subacetate
(from Latin sub)

sub judice adj before a court of law or a judge; under judicial consideration
(Latin)

sub-machine-gun n
a portable automatic or semiautomatic light gun with a short barrel, firing pistol ammunition: designed to be fired from the hip or shoulder

sub-post office n
(in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office

sub rosa adv in secret
(Latin, literally: under the rose; from the rose that, in ancient times, was hung over the council table, as a token of secrecy)

sub-Saharan adj
in, of, or relating to Africa south of the Sahara desert

Thompson sub-machine-gun n ^Trademarka .45 calibre sub-machine-gun, (Also called) Tommy gun (C20: after John T. Thompson (1860--1940), US Army Officer, its coinventor)