📖 S — The English dictionary · page 111

subtlety — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Subtlety is cleverness in planning tricks that are hard to see.↗ In Jewish tradition, meaning 2: A subtlety is a small, delicate detail that is hard to notice.↗ Example: The hero won by subtlety, not by strength.↗ · The king was famous for his wisdom and subtlety.↗ · The hare used subtlety to escape the dogs.↗ · The painting has many subtleties of colour.↗

subtly — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a sly, clever, hidden way.↗ Example: Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother acteth subtly, and every neighbour goeth about with slanders.↗ (Prophets JER.9.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.↗ (Prophets 1SA.23.22, JPS 1917)↗

subtract — Everyday, meaning 1: To subtract is to take one number away from another to find what is left or the difference.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To subtract something can also mean to take it away from a group or an amount.↗ Example: Student: I subtract: 6 (because of «give», «left»).↗ · Subtract 5 from 12.↗ · We subtract to find how many more Tom has than Ben.↗ · If you subtract 3 from 10, you get 7.↗ · Mum subtracted the cost of the milk from 20 dollars to find her change.↗ · To check a subtraction, add the answer to the smaller number.↗ · The coach subtracted one point for a foul.↗ · Subtraction is the opposite of addition.↗

subtraction — Everyday, meaning 1: Subtraction is taking one number away from another to find what is left or the difference.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A subtraction is one sum where you take away.↗ e.g. "do these ten subtractions".↗ Example: Subtraction is the opposite of addition.↗ · 15 − 6 = 9 is a subtraction.↗ · I had 10 sweets and ate 3; subtraction tells me 7 are left.↗ · We practised column subtraction today.↗ · What is the difference between 20 and 12?↗ Use subtraction: 8.↗ · Check your subtraction by adding the answer back.↗ · The change from 5 dollars after spending 3 dollars 40 is found by subtraction.↗

suburb — Everyday, meaning 1: A suburb is an area where people live on the edge of a city or town, mostly with houses, schools and shops rather than big offices or factories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The suburbs means all such areas around a city.↗ Example: We live in a suburb of Dublin.↗ · Many people commute from the suburbs to the city.↗ · Bondi is a suburb of Sydney.↗ · The suburbs have more gardens than the city centre.↗ · Our new school is in a leafy suburb.↗ · Trains helped suburbs grow in Victorian times.↗ · In an out-of-the-way suburb of Rome lay a tavern much visited by artists.↗

suburban — Everyday, meaning 1: Suburban means of or in the outer parts of a town or city, where there are houses and gardens, away from the centre.↗ Example: We live in a quiet suburban street.↗ · The suburban gardens were full of flowers.↗ · The school is in a suburban area, not in the centre.↗

subvert — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To overturn or ruin something, especially to twist a person's case so justice fails.↗ Example: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.↗ (Writings LAM.3.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Know now that God hath subverted my cause, and hath compassed me with His net.↗ (Writings JOB.19.6, JPS 1917)↗

subway — Everyday, meaning 1: In the USA and Canada, an underground railway in a city, like the New York subway.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the UK, Ireland and Australia, a path or tunnel under a road for people to walk through.↗ Example: We took the subway to the museum.↗ · The subway station is two blocks away.↗ · Hold an adult's hand on a busy subway platform.↗ · In London, the underground railway is called the Tube, not the subway.↗ · Use the subway to cross the main road.↗ · The subway was crowded in the morning.↗

succeed — Everyday, meaning 1: To succeed is to do what you tried or hoped to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To succeed someone is to come after them and take their place, like a new king succeeding an old one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To succeed can mean to do well in life or in a job.↗ Example: She succeeded in climbing to the top of the wall.↗ · If at first you don't succeed, try again.↗ · With practice, you will succeed.↗ · He finally succeeded in tying his shoelaces.↗ · The prince succeeded his father as king.↗ · Our plan to surprise Mum succeeded.↗ · Working together helps everyone succeed.↗ · All of them tried, but only one succeeded.↗ · a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; (Torah DEU.2.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.↗ (Torah DEU.25.6, JPS 1917)↗ · When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou dost succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; (Torah DEU.19.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and increasest Thine indignation upon me; host succeeding host against me.↗ (Writings JOB.10.17, JPS 1917)↗

success — Everyday, meaning 1: Success is doing what you wanted or tried to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A success is something that goes well or works, like a party that is a success.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Success can mean being famous, rich or doing well in life.↗ Example: The school fair was a huge success.↗ · Practice is the key to success.↗ · We celebrated our team's success.↗ · Her first try was not a success, but the second was.↗ · The experiment ended in success.↗ · Success feels good after hard work.↗ · The bake sale was a success: we raised 80 dollars.↗ · In short, the Nightingale was a real success.↗ · And David had great success in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And David went out; whithersoever Saul sent him, he had good success; and Saul set him over the men of war; and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.↗ (Prophets 1SA.18.5, JPS 1917)↗

successful — Everyday, meaning 1: Achieving what you wanted or tried to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having done well in life, work or business, often becoming rich or famous.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Turning out well; working as planned, like a successful plan or experiment.↗ Example: Our cake sale was very successful — we raised £120.↗ · She was successful in getting into the team.↗ · The rocket launch was successful.↗ · He became a successful writer.↗ · The rescue was successful and everyone was safe.↗ · The experiment was successful on the third try.↗ · A successful team works together.↗ · This time her scheme was successful.↗ · "When Abraham our father arose, he looked nnd saw and investigated and observed and engraved and hewed and combin- ed and formed and calculated, and his creation was successful.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

successfully — Everyday, meaning 1: Successfully means in a way that achieves what you wanted or planned.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Successfully means without failing or going wrong.↗ Example: She successfully climbed to the top of the wall.↗ · The rocket was launched successfully.↗ · You have successfully logged in.↗ · The class successfully grew beans from seeds.↗ · He successfully passed his swimming test.↗ · Of the 20 free throws, Tom successfully scored 15.↗ · The firefighters successfully rescued the cat.↗ · The plan worked successfully.↗ · Peter had made the journey to the treasure mountain successfully, without being found out by anybody.↗

succession — Everyday, meaning 1: A succession is a number of people or things that follow one after another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In succession means one after another, without a break.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Succession is the passing of a title or position, like king or queen, to the next person.↗ Example: The team won four matches in succession.↗ · A succession of visitors came to see the new baby.↗ · The prince is next in the line of succession.↗ · Three loud bangs came in quick succession.↗ · After the fire, plants returned in succession: grass first, then bushes, then trees.↗ · She had a succession of jobs before becoming a teacher.↗ · He committed the enormity of winning seven games in succession from the king himself!!!↗ · He combined, weighed and changed : the א with all the other letters in succession, and all the others again with א; ב with all, and all again with ב; and so the whole series of letters.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · is '' the voices from nothing."↗ The Ten Sephiruth of the Kabalah are the " Ten Primary Emanations from the Divine Source " which are the primal forces leading to all manifestation upon every plane in succession.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

successive — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming or happening one after another, in a row, without a break.↗ Example: The team won five successive matches.↗ · It rained on four successive days.↗ · (formal) Successive governments have promised new hospitals.↗ · Each successive picture was bigger than the one before.↗ · She came first for the second successive time.↗ · Find two successive numbers that add up to 15: 7 and 8.↗ · Successive waves washed over the sandcastle.↗ · He is enabled to perform this feat by a magic horse, which he obtains by watching his father's crops on three successive St. John's Nights.↗ · all the triliteral combinations, leaving sufficient space between two successive combinations for the addition of a new letter; then by adding an x at the beginning of each triliteral com- bination, we shall attain 10,648 quadriliterals beginning with an N.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

successively — Everyday, meaning 1: Successively means one after another, in order, without a break.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Successively also means each time in a series, with each one following the last: successively larger numbers.↗ Example: The numbers 3, 6, 9, 12 get successively bigger.↗ · The team won three matches successively.↗ · The kings ruled the country successively.↗ · The steps get successively harder.↗ · Pour the liquids in successively, not all at once.↗ · The bowls were successively smaller, like Russian dolls.↗ · Cuchulain fights three of them successively, has his wounds bound up by a strip of the maiden's garment, and then departs.↗

successor — Everyday, meaning 1: A successor is a person who takes over a job, title or position after someone else leaves it, like the next king or the next head teacher.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A successor is something that comes after and replaces something else, like a newer model of a phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) The successor of a whole number is the number that comes right after it.↗ Example: Prince Charles was the successor to Queen Elizabeth.↗ · (Bible) Joshua was chosen as the successor of Moses.↗ · The head teacher's successor starts next term.↗ · The new game is the successor to last year's hit.↗ · (maths) The successor of 99 is 100.↗ · The king had no son, so there was no clear successor.↗ · She is a worthy successor to the old captain.↗ · I shall feel that I have a worthy successor, and shall cheerfully retire from the fatigues of government."↗

succoth — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A place name meaning "booths" or "huts.".↗ Example: Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.↗ (Torah GEN.33.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.↗ (Torah NUM.33.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle.↗ (Torah GEN.33.17, JPS 1917)↗ · In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.46, JPS 1917)↗ · In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.↗ (Writings 2CH.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, (Prophets 2KI.17.30, JPS 1917)↗

succour — Everyday, meaning 1: Succour is help given to someone in trouble or need.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To succour someone is to help them when they are in danger or need.↗ (Spelt succor in America.).↗ Example: The knight came to their succour.↗ · The old woman gave succour to the lost child.↗ · The god promised to succour the weak.↗ · But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him.↗ (Prophets 2SA.21.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.↗ (Prophets 2SA.8.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men.↗ (Writings 1CH.18.5, JPS 1917)↗

succumb — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To succumb is to stop resisting something and give in to it, like a temptation or pressure.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, euphemism) To succumb to an illness or injury is to die from it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To succumb to sleep or tiredness is to be overcome by it.↗ Example: I finally succumbed and ate the last biscuit.↗ · The town succumbed to the enemy after a long siege.↗ · Sadly, the driver succumbed to his injuries.↗ · Many trees succumbed to the disease.↗ · After the long walk, the children succumbed to sleep.↗ · Don't succumb to pressure from friends to do something wrong.↗ · The old castle succumbed to wind and rain over time.↗ · Arrived on the battlefield she beheld the lifeless body of her son, who, after a long and brave defence, had at length succumbed to the all-conquering arm of Achilles.↗