submarine

«submarine» in Mova's school dictionary: a ship that can travel under the water as well as on top… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a submarine, submarines); adjective (submarine — under the sea)

meaning for a pupil

1) A submarine is a ship that can travel under the water as well as on top of it. tree →

2) (adjective, formal) Submarine means under the sea: "submarine cables". tree →

3) (USA) A submarine sandwich (a sub) is a long bread roll filled with meat, cheese and salad. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, submarines fill tanks with water to sink and blow the water out with air to rise — this shows floating and sinking. In stories and history, submarines are used for exploring and in wars. Phrases: nuclear submarine, yellow submarine, submarine sandwich, by submarine.

examples

• The submarine dived deep under the ocean. tree →
• A submarine fills its tanks with water to sink. tree →
• Sailors on a submarine use a periscope to see above the water. tree →
• Submarine cables carry the internet under the sea. tree →
• I ordered a turkey submarine for lunch. tree →
• The submarine travelled 300 kilometres in 10 hours, so 30 kilometres an hour. tree →

note

Countable. Short form: sub. The prefix sub- means under (subway, submerge). "Underwater" is the everyday word for the adjective sense.

In the corpora

• pre- means before (preview, prehistoric); sub- means under (submarine, subway).
• The war brought new machines such as tanks, aeroplanes, submarines and machine guns, which made it far deadlier than earlier wars.
• A submarine fills tanks with seawater to sink and blows them out with air to rise.
• Big nuclear submarines make their own oxygen from seawater using electricity.
• A submarine can choose to float or sink.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «submarine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.