The difference between Hamburger and Sandwich

When used as nouns, hamburger means a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both, whereas sandwich means a dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.


Sandwich is also verb with the meaning: to place one item between two other, usually flat, items.

Sandwich is also adjective with the meaning: of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hamburger and Sandwich

  1. Hamburger as a noun:

    A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.

  2. Hamburger as a noun:

    The patty used in such a sandwich.

  3. Hamburger as a noun (uncountable):

    Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.

  4. Hamburger as a noun (colloquial, somewhat, vulgar):

    An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

    Examples:

    "The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger."

    "I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again."

  1. Sandwich as a noun:

    A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.

  2. Sandwich as a noun:

    Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

  3. Sandwich as a noun (UK):

    A layer cake or sandwich cake.

  1. Sandwich as a verb:

    To place one item between two other, usually flat, items

  2. Sandwich as a verb (figuratively):

    To put or set something between two others, in time.

  1. Sandwich as an adjective (US):

    Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.