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Definition: Submarine |
SubmarineAdjective1. Beneath the surface of the sea. Noun1. A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes. 2. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States. Verb1. Move forward or under in a sliding motion; "The child was injured when he submarined under the safety belt of the car". 2. Throw with an underhand motion, as of a baseball. 3. Bring down with a blow to the legs, in sports. 4. Control a submarine. 5. Attack by submarine; "The Germans submarined the Allies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "submarine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A submarine is a specialized ship that travels under water, usually for military purposes. Most major navies of the world employ submarines. Submarines are also used for marine and freshwater science and for work at depths too great for human divers. A U-Boot is an alternative name for a submarine (Unterseeboot), but it is mainly given to German submarines since WWII, being the German translation of the same. Another submaritime device is the diving bell.
''A Los Angeles-class nuclear powered military submarine of the United States Navy
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Scientific and commercial submarines
In common usage, submarine normally means military submarine; vessels used for research or commercial purposes are usually called submersibles. Non-military submarines are usually much smaller than military submarines. A type called a bathysphere lacks self-propulsion. A predecessor of the bathysphere, the diving bell, consisted of a chamber, with an open bottom, lowered into the water.
One of the first working non-military submersibles was the steam driven Ictineo II, built in 1862 by Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol and whose purpose was to ease the harvest of coral.
Tourist submarines work mainly in tropical resort areas. In 1996, there were over fifty private submarines operating around the world, serving approximately two million passengers that year. Most of these submarines carried between twenty-five and fifty passengers at a time and sometimes made ten or more dives a day. In design, these submarines borrow mainly from research subs, having large windows for passengers' viewing and often placing significant mechanical systems outside the hull to conserve interior space. They are mainly battery-powered and very slow.
A fairly recent development, very small unmanned submarines called marine remotely operated vehicles are widely used today to work in water too deep or too dangerous for divers. For example, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) repair offshore petroleum platforms and attach cables to sunken ships to hoist them. Such remotely operated vehicles are attached by a tether (a thick cable providing power and communications) to control center on a ship. Operators on the ship see video images sent back from the robot and may control its propellers and manipulator arm.
Military submarines
There are probably more military submarines in operation that any other type of submarine, though it is difficult to obtain exact figures because navies are secretive about their submarine fleets.
Submarines are useful to a military because they can approach their attack victim without necessarily being detected, then strike at close range. A great deal of attention in the design of a submarine is devoted to making its travel through the water silent to prevent its detection by enemy ships and submarines. Modern vessels have a cigar-shaped "albacore" shape. Their hulls are sleek and hydrodynamic. They are designed to remain submerged nearly all of the time, surfacing only rarely.
A raised tower on top of a submarine accommodates the length of the periscopes and electronics masts, which can include radio, radar, electronic warfare, and other systems. In the obsolete boat-shaped classes of submarines (see history, below), the control room, or conn, was located inside this tower, which was known as the conning tower. Since that time, however, conn has been located within the main body of the submarine, and the tower is more commonly called the sail today. In another interpretation, conning tower comes from the English verb to con, which means to navigate, indicating the presence of navigational systems in the conning tower. The conn should not be confused with the bridge, which is a small platform set into the top of the sail used for visual observation while running on the surface.
Sonar is a submarine's principal means of short-range submerged navigation. The global positioning system is used for long-range navigation. The periscope is only used occasionally, since the range of visibility below the sea is short.
A typical military submarine has a crew of over one hundred. Their job is one of the most difficult assignments in the navy, for they must work in isolation for long periods, without much contact with their families, since submarines normally maintain radio silence to avoid detection. Operating a submarine is dangerous, even in peacetime; many submarines have been lost in accidents (see history, below).
Types of military submarines
Military submarines come in two general types: ballistic-missile submarines and attack submarines. (Outside these categories may fall the many smaller midget submarines, used for sabotage, espionage and secretive transport. Note that North Korea's submarine fleet, estimated as the fourth-largest in the world in the 1990s, consists largely of smaller vessels. Also outside the two categories fall the World War II German milchcow submarines: submersible supply vessels.)
Ballistic missile submarines (or boomers, in American slang) carry nuclear weapons for attacking strategic targets such as cities or missile silos anywhere in the world. They are universally nuclear-powered, to provide the greatest stealthiness and endurance. They played an important part in Cold War mutual deterrence: since both the United States and the Soviet Union had the capability (or could contend to have) to heavily strike at the attacking nations should one attack the other, both nations were "deterred". China also possesses one ballistic missile submarine (Xia class). The American George Washington-class "boomers" were named for "famous Americans" and the later Ohio-class were named for states, with the exceptions that some of the "famous Americans" were foreigners and SSBN-730 gained the name of a Senator.
Submarines designed for the purpose of attacking merchant ships or other warships are known as attack or hunter-killer submarines. They typically carry torpedoes for attacking naval vessels, and sometimes cruise missiles for attacking land-based targets or shipping. They use a much wider variety of propulsion systems. The majority use the same diesel-electric combination developed early in the 20th century, many use nuclear power, and a growing number use some other form of air-independent propulsion such as fuel cells or Stirling engines. All of the hunter submarines of the United States use nuclear power. All American attack submarines (that had actual names rather than just alphanumeric designators) were named for "denizens of the deep" until the Los Angeles class, which are named for cities -- with the exceptions of several named for politicians, and the new Seawolf, which received the traditional name.
History of military submarines
A cross-section sketch of Bushnell's Turtle''' (Larger Version) Though the first submersible vehicles were tools for exploring under water, it did not take long for inventors to recognize their military potential. The first military submarine was the Turtle, a hand-powered spherical contraption designed by American David Bushnell that accommodated a single man. During the American Revolutionary War, the Turtle attempted and failed to sink a British warship, the HMS Eagle in New York harbor on September 7, 1776.
In 1800, Robert Fulton demonstrated the French, and then the British, how to destroy ships with his human-powered submarine "Nautilus", using a mine, but none of the governments showed any interest.
During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America fielded a human-powered submarine, the CSS Hunley. It was used for attacking the North's ships, which were blockading the South's seaports. The submarine had a long pole on the front, upon which was attached an explosive charge. The sub was to sneak up to an enemy vessel, attach the explosive, move away, and then detonate. It was extremely hazardous to operate, and had no air supply other than what was contained inside the main compartment. On at least one occasion, the sub sank, and the entire crew perished. In 1863 the CSS Hunley sank the USS Housatonic in the Charleston Harbor, the first time a submarine successfully sank another ship. The Hunley did not survive the mission and was not a major factor in the war.
In 1870, writer Jules Verne published the science fiction classic 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, which concerns the adventures of a maverick inventor in a submarine more advanced than any that existed at that time. The fictional story inspired inventors to build submarines. The first mechanically powered submarine was the steam-powered 'Resurgam', designed by a Manchester curate, the Reverend George Garrett, and built at Birkenhead in 1879. Garrett intended to demonstrate the 12 metre long vehicle to the British Navy at Portsmouth, but had mechanical problems, and while under tow the submarine was flooded and sank off North Wales. The first submarine built in series, however, was human-powered. It was the submarine of the Polish inventor Stefan Drzewiecki - 50 units were built in 1881 for Russian government. In 1884 the same inventor built an electric-powered sumbmarine. In 1899, the French steam and electric submarine "Narval" introduced the classic twin-hull design, with an inner hull inside an outer hull. The Irish inventor John Holland had better luck, and designed and built several quite successful gasoline- and electric powered submarines. Some of his vessels were purchased by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and commissioned into their navies.
Many more submarines were built subsequently by various inventors, but they were not to become effective weapons until the 20th century. Both battery power and gasoline power were tried.
The first military submarines to see effective use were the U-boats of Germany, first introduced in World War I. The innovation that made the U-boats practical war machines was their use of diesel. More like submersible ships than the submarines of today, U-boats operated primarily on the surface, submerging occasionally to attack. Thus, they were roughly triangular in cross-section, with a distinct keel, to control rolling while surfaced. The sinking of the ocean liner RMS Lusitania by a U-boat was a major factor in bringing the United States of America into the war.
Germany again put submarines to devastating effect against the merchant ships of the United Kingdom and the United States during World War II. Although the U-boats were improved, the main reason for their success was the introduction of mass-attack tactics called a pack (in German, Rudel) commonly traveled and fought together. (The term is often translated as "wolf-pack", but the German word does not specify wolves.) Germany attempted to maintain an blockade against the United Kingdom in the Battle of the Atlantic (1940). Although the German blockade was of great concern to Allied forces, they succeeded in block only a small fraction of Allied shipping, in part because the Allies had broken the German naval code and German tactics involved broadcasting target information.
Meanwhile the US used their submaries to attack merchant shipping, destroying more Japanese shipping that all other weapons combined. While the British and Japanese also fielded submarines, they were used in fleet actions where they were almost useless due to their low speeds.
In the 1950s, nuclear power partially replaced diesel fuel in those nations with access to nuclear technology. Equipment was also developed to extract oxygen from sea water. These two innovations gave submarines so equipped the ability to remain submerged for weeks or months, and enable previously impossible voyages such as USS Nautilus' crossing of the North pole beneath the Arctic ice cap in 1958. Non-nuclear nations continued to develop conventional forms of propulsion.
During the Cold War, the United States of America and the Soviet Union maintained large submarine fleets that engaged in cat-and-mouse games; Russia continues this tradition today. The Soviet Union suffered the loss of at least three submarines during this period: K-8 was lost in 1970, K-219 in 1986, and Komsomolets in 1989 (which held a depth record among the military submarines - 1000 m). (The loss by Russia, inheritor of the Soviet navy, of Kursk in 2000 cannot be attributed to the Cold War). Many other Soviet subs, such as K-19 were badly damaged by fire or radiation leaks. The United States lost two nuclear submarines during this time: USS Thresher (SSN-593) and USS Scorpion (SSN-589). Their wrecks remain on the ocean floor with their nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
The United Kingdom employed nuclear-powered submarines against Argentina in 1982 during the two nations' dispute over the Falkland Islands. The sinking of the antiquated ARA General Belgrano by HMS Conqueror was the first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime.
In 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk sank in the Arctic Ocean; an international rescue effort failed to save the crew. In 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank a Japanese ship, Ehime-Maru, killing nine Japanese crewmen. In August 2003, the Russian nuclear November class submarine K-159 sank in the Barents Sea. The submarine was decommissioned and it had ten crew on board.
See also
Articles on specific submarine vessels:
- Timeline of underwater technology
Articles on specific submarine classes:
- USS Greeneville
- "Nerwin" (NR-1)
- USS Ohio
- HMS Resolution (also several surface vessels of this name)
- USS Scorpion
- USS Thresher
- USS Nebraska
- USS Cod
Related topics:
- SSK Agosta 90B attack submarine class
- Benjamin Franklin-class fleet ballistic missile submarines
- Ko-hyoteki class submarine
- Ohio-class fleet ballistic missile submarines
- Type 209 submarine
- Swiftsure class submarine
- Trafalgar class submarine
- Upholder class submarine
- Victoria class submarine
- Sturgeon-class attack submarines
- Los Angeles-class attack submarines
- Seawolf-class attack submarines
- Virginia-class attack submarines
- Resolution class ballistic missile submarines
- The Hunt for Red October
- USS Indianapolis
- Modern Naval tactics
- submarine sandwich
- Big Red: Three Months On Board a Trident Nuclear Submarine
External references
- Early Development of the Submarine: http://www.warships.net/royalnavy/rnshiptypes/submarines/development.htm
- On the Turtle: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4870/DrGeorgePCPage9Turtle.html
- John Holland: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/holland.htm
- SubNet: http://www.subnet.com/
- German Submarines of WWII: http://www.uboat.net
- Submarines of WWI: http://www.dropbears.com/w/ww1subs/index.htm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Submarine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| sub | English | Submarine | Military & Defense, Transportation |
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Synonyms: SubmarineSynonyms: undersea (adj), bomber (n), grinder (n), hero (n), hero sandwich (n), hoagie (n), hoagy (n), pigboat (n), poor boy (n), sub (n), submarine sandwich (n), torpedo (n), wedge (n), zep (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Depth | Adjective: deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene; underground. |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) I kind of like it the way it is. Submarine shape (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn) You and your submarine! Look where it's got us now (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.) That was my personal submarine. But enough of this polite conversation (Casino Royale; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Wolf Mankowitz) Unrestricted submarine warfare, bombing of civilians, poison gas. Ask your wife -- she's a nurse (The Blue Max; writing credit: Jack Hunter; Ben Barzman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yellow Submarine (1968) Mystery Submarine (1963) The Atomic Submarine (1959) Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender (1959) Mystery Submarine (1950) | |
Song Titles | Yellow Submarine (performing artist: The Beatles) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (2) color slides show single sandwich made on a submarine or hoagie type roll with all the fixings. (1) sandwich (no wrapping), (1) sandwich (on top of unwrapped deli paper). Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Submarine in Full Scale Tunnel at NACA Langley. Credit: NASA. |
 | Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #5 1897 contoured map of Monterey "Submerged Valley" From George Davidson published paper in Proc. of Calif. Acad. of Sciences Monterey Canyon was first noted in 1857 by James Alden of C&GS Ship ACTIVE Alden termed the canyon a "submarine gulch". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Title page to manual - "The Submarine Fathometer" Fathometer invented by Herbert Grove Dorsey of the Sub Signal Corporation. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Flying to Tropical Storm Dawn. A view of submarine topography on the Bahamas Banks. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Submarine topography as seen over Florida Gulf Coast while on way to investigate Tropical Storm Ella. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Clelia submarine on board Harbor Branch's Sea Diver. This submersible dives to 1,000 meters. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | R. Cooper, R. Slater, and J. Uzmann (l-r) view sub tapes from submarine canyon. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Bathymetric map of the Gulf of Alaska by Harold Murray of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The seamounts are named for C&GS hydrographers. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by Harold W. Murray of the C&GS. Published in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1941, Vol 52, pp. 333-362. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Dead Reckoning Lines in the Gulf of Alaska. Showing the systematic planning of tracklines year by year from 1925 to 1939 by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by Harold W. Murray of the C&GS. Published in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1941, Vol 52, pp. 333-362. Offprint call number: 526.98 M98. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Yellow submarine" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Yellow submarine on the shore ready for transport (Grand Cayman)." | "Submarine #1 2" by Bjarte Kvinge Tvedt Commentary: "Small old-age submarine. ." |
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 | Bomb; explode; explosion; atom bomb; bombshell; charge; device; explosive; grenade; hydrogen bomb; mine; missile; nuclear bomb; projectile; rocket; shell; ticker; torpedo; submarine. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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J. William Fulbright | In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Germany. (reference) |
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Business | The system’s generation capability is 110 MW and is connected to mainland by an 80 MW submarine cable. (references) | |
Other equipment currently in high demand includes submarine fiber optic cable, cable TV decoders, and decoding systems. (references) | ||
A breakdown at a substation on the mainland in June 1999 led to a failure in the submarine transmission cable that delivers power to Nueva Esparta and caused power outages in the SENECA system. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | A submarine cable links Pakistan with UAE. (references) |
Panama | Panama is also becoming a hub for submarine fiber optic cables. (references) | |
Bahrain | The link will consist of 60 kilometers of overhead line and 30 kilometers of submarine cable. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Soyfer and his colleagues had been engaged in measuring the radioactive contamination resulting from a 1985 nuclear submarine accident in Chazhma Bay. (references) |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | A U.S.-based submarine cable firm, Asia Global Crossing Taiwan Inc., started cable lease services in August 2001. Two other submarine cable firms are also expected to receive their operation licenses in the first quarter of 2002 and another one is in the application process. (references) |
Travel | Thailand | Thailand's economic plunge in 1997 caused a sharp decline in the demand for telecommunications services that included landline telephone, cellular phone, radio communications, paging, and VSAT services . Consequently, planned investments in the expansion of 6 million landline telephones and cellular phones in the radio frequency ranges of 1500 and 1900-megahertz have been deferred . However, the installation of rural public long distance telephone lines and the installation of submarine fiber optic cable were not affected by the economic crisis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I have directed prompt action to step up our Polaris submarine program. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are also modernizing our strategic submarine force. |
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| "Submarine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Submarine" is used about 518 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.81% | 517 | 11,748 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 518 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "submarine": atomic submarine ♦ Attack submarine ♦ auxiliary research submarine ♦ fleet ballistic missile submarine ♦ lifeguard submarine ♦ miniature submarine ♦ nuclear submarine ♦ sailor on submarine ♦ submarine armor ♦ submarine ball ♦ submarine base ♦ submarine cable ♦ submarine earthquake ♦ submarine exercise area coordinator ♦ submarine haven ♦ submarine havens ♦ submarine launched missile ♦ submarine line ♦ submarine locator acoustic beacon ♦ Submarine Medicine ♦ submarine mine ♦ submarine movement advisory authority ♦ submarine notice ♦ submarine operating authority ♦ submarine overland system interconnection point ♦ submarine patrol area ♦ submarine pen ♦ submarine pitch ♦ submarine sandwich ♦ submarine sentry ♦ submarine telegraph cable ♦ submarine torpedo ♦ submarine warfare ♦ submergible submarine ♦ submersible submarine ♦ wet submarine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "submarine": submarine-based, submarine-building, submarine-cable, submarine-launched, submarine-missile. | |
Ending with "submarine": anti-submarine. | |
Containing "submarine": anti-submarine rocket. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "submarine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nëndetëse, i nëndetëses. (various references) | |
Arabic | هاجم بغواصة, نبات تحت بحري, غواصة (sub), تحت سطح البحر, تحبحري واقع تحت البحر, سندوتش كبير. (various references) | |
Basque | itsaspeko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | голям сандвич от франзела (sub), подводница (sub). (various references) | |
Chinese | 潜水艇 (sub, Sub-), 潛艇 , 潛水艇 . (various references) | |
Czech | ponorka (pig-boat, sub), podmořský (undersea). (various references) | |
Danish | submarine-, undervandsbaad, undervands-. (various references) | |
Dutch | onderzees, onderzeeboot, onderzeeër, duikboot. (various references) | |
Farsi | تحت البحری , زیردریاحرکت کردن , زیردریاءی (Uboat), بازیردریاءی حمله کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | vedenalainen (submerged, sunken), merenalainen. (various references) | |
French | sous-marin. (various references) | |
German | unterseeboot, u-boot (sub, u-boat). (various references) | |
Greek | υποβρύχιο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תת מימי, צוללת (sub, u.boat). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tengeralattjáró (nuke, sub, submersible), tenger alatti (undersea). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kapal selam. (various references) | |
Italian | sommergibile, sottomarino (u-boat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 潜水艦. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ユーボート (U-boat), せんすいかん, サブマリン . (various references) | |
Korean | 잠수함 (SS, sub, Sub-). (various references) | |
Manx | fovooirane (U-boat), fo-vooir, fo-honn (underwater). (various references) | |
Occitan | josmarin *. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubmarinesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | submarino (sub, u-boat, undersea). (various references) | |
Romanian | submarin (deep sea, pigboat), plantã submarinã. (various references) | |
Russian | субмарина, подводный (subaqueous, submersed, subsurface, undersea), подводная лодка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podmorski (undersea), podmornica (shadower), podmornički. (various references) | |
Spanish | submarino (undersea, underwater). (various references) | |
Swedish | undervattensbåt, undervattens- (submerged, undersea, underwater), submarin. (various references) | |
Turkish | denizaltı (submersible). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | атакувати підводним човном, підводний човен, підводний (immersed, subaqueous, undersea, underwater), потопити підводним човном. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dưới biển, động vật sống dưới biển. (various references) | |
Welsh | suddlong, tanforol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "submarine": submarined, submariner, submariners, submarines. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "submarine": antisubmarine. (additional references) | |
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"Submarine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: submerine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "submarine" (pronounced su"bmerē'n or su'bmerē"n) |
| 7 | s u" b m er ē' n | antisubmarine. |
| 3 | -er ē' n | caesarean, cyclosporine. |
| 4 | -m er ē" n | aquamarine, marine. |
| 3 | -er ē" n | figurine, careen, serene, tambourine, tangerine, wolverine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-m-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: aneurism, urbanise, urbanism. | |
-2 letters: ambries, bariums, burnies, erbiums, imbrues, manures, marines, mureins, murines, numbers, remains, seminar, suberin, sunbeam, surname, unbears, uranism, uremias. | |
-3 letters: abuser, aimers, airbus, airmen, ambers, amines, amuser, animes, animus, arisen, armies, arsine, bairns, barium, barmen, barmie, brains, braise, breams, brines, bruins, bruise, brumes, burans, buries, burins, burnie, bursae, busier, busman. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-m-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: submarined, submariner, submarines. | |
+2 letters: lambrequins, submariners, subterminal, tambourines. | |
+3 letters: barramundies, drumbeatings, immensurable, subminiature. | |
+4 letters: antisubmarine, hyperurbanism, mensurability, neurofibromas, republicanism. | |
+5 letters: bildungsromane, hyperurbanisms, insurmountable, perambulations, republicanisms, submetacentric, subnormalities, troublemakings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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