The difference between Sub and Wedge

When used as nouns, sub means a submarine, whereas wedge means one of the simple machines.

When used as verbs, sub means to substitute for, whereas wedge means to support or secure using a wedge.


Sub is also preposition with the meaning: under.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sub and Wedge

  1. Sub as a noun:

    A submarine.

  2. Sub as a noun:

    A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.

    Examples:

    "We can get subs at that deli."

  3. Sub as a noun (informal):

    A substitute, often in sports.

    Examples:

    "With the score 4 to 1, they brought in subs''."

    "She worked as a sub until she got her teaching certificate."

  4. Sub as a noun (British, informal, often in plural):

    A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.

  5. Sub as a noun (informal):

    A submissive in BDSM practices.

  6. Sub as a noun (Internet, informal):

    A subtitle.

    Examples:

    "I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film."

  7. Sub as a noun (computing, programming):

    A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).

  8. Sub as a noun (colloquial):

    A subeditor.

  9. Sub as a noun (colloquial):

    A subcontractor.

  10. Sub as a noun (colloquial, dated):

    A subordinate.

  11. Sub as a noun (colloquial, dated):

    A subaltern.

  12. Sub as a noun (colloquial):

    A subscription to an online channel or feed.

  13. Sub as a noun (colloquial):

    A subscriber to an online channel or feed.

  1. Sub as a verb (US, informal):

    To substitute for.

  2. Sub as a verb (US, informal):

    To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.

  3. Sub as a verb (British, informal, football):

    To replace (a player) with a substitute.

    Examples:

    " He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time."

  4. Sub as a verb (British, informal, football):

    Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.

    Examples:

    "He was subbed on half way through the second half, and scored within minutes."

  5. Sub as a verb (British):

    To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.

  6. Sub as a verb (UK, slang, transitive):

    To lend.

  7. Sub as a verb (slang, intransitive):

    To subscribe.

  8. Sub as a verb (BDSM):

    To take a submissive role.

  1. Sub as a preposition:

    Under.

  1. Sub as a verb:

    To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.

  2. Sub as a verb (microscopy):

    To prepare (a slide) with an layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.

  1. Wedge as a noun:

    One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

    Examples:

    "Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut."

  2. Wedge as a noun:

    A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

    Examples:

    "Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"

    "We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza."

  3. Wedge as a noun (geometry):

    A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

  4. Wedge as a noun (figurative):

    Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

  5. Wedge as a noun (archaic):

    A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

  6. Wedge as a noun (golf):

    A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

  7. Wedge as a noun:

    A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

  8. Wedge as a noun:

    One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

  9. Wedge as a noun (colloquial, British):

    A quantity of money.

    Examples:

    "I made a big fat wedge from that job."

  10. Wedge as a noun (typography, US):

  11. Wedge as a noun (phonetics):

    The character ⟨⟩, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

  12. Wedge as a noun (mathematics):

    The symbol , denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

  13. Wedge as a noun (meteorology):

    a wedge tornado

  1. Wedge as a verb:

    To support or secure using a wedge.

    Examples:

    "I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."

  2. Wedge as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To force into a narrow gap.

    Examples:

    "He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."

    "I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully."

  3. Wedge as a verb:

    To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

  4. Wedge as a verb (computing, informal, intransitive):

    Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

    Examples:

    "My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."

  1. Wedge as a noun (UK, Cambridge University slang):

    The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.