Definition of Submerine
Sub`ma*rine" (?), a. Being, acting,
or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators;
submarine plants.
Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong
material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped
through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to
remain under water. -- Submarine cable. See
Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. --
Submarine mine. See Torpedo, 2
(a).
Sub*ma*rine", n. A submarine plant
or animal.
Sub`ma*rine" (?), n. A submarine
boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif.
submergible submarine when capable of operating at various
depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and
submersible submarine when capable of being only partly
submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above
water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as
desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast
tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect
submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some
cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks.
Sub`ma*rine" (?), a. Being, acting,
or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators;
submarine plants.
Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong
material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped
through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to
remain under water. -- Submarine cable. See
Telegraph cable, under Telegraph. --
Submarine mine. See Torpedo, 2
(a).
Sub*ma*rine", n. A submarine plant
or animal.
Sub`ma*rine" (?), n. A submarine
boat; esp., Nav., a submarine torpedo boat; -- called specif.
submergible submarine when capable of operating at various
depths and of traveling considerable distances under water, and
submersible submarine when capable of being only partly
submerged, i.e., so that the conning tower, etc., is still above
water. The latter type and most of the former type are submerged as
desired by regulating the amount of water admitted to the ballast
tanks and sink on an even keel; some of the former type effect
submersion while under way by means of horizontal rudders, in some
cases also with admission of water to the ballast tanks.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (UK): under water
- term referring to something hidden or undisclosed, e.g. submarine patent
- A ship that can go underwater.
- A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread, also called a hero sandwich, a hoagie, a poor boy, and a grinder.
- (UK): A term reserved by some navies under limited conditions for non-nuclear submarines, because they cannot retroactively declare that these should be called by a different name once nuclear power became adapted for propulsion.
- (UK): A term adapted by some civilians for calling nuclear submarines ("true submarines") instead of non-nuclear ones ("submersibles").
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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