Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 186
Subtonic (n.) (Phonetics) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.
Subtonic (n.) (Mus.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
Subtonic (n.) (Music) The seventh note of the diatonic scale [syn: subtonic, leading tone].
Subtorrid (a.) Nearly torrid.
Subtracted (imp. & p. p.) of Subtract.
Subtracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtract.
Subtract (v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
Subtract (v.) Make a subtraction; "subtract this amount from my paycheck" [syn: subtract, deduct, take off] [ant: add, add together].
Subtract (v.) Take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French."
Subtracter (n.) One who subtracts.
Subtracter (n.) The subtrahend. [Obs.]
Subtracter (n.) A person who subtracts numbers.
Subtracter (n.) A machine that subtracts numbers.
Subtraction (n.) The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
Subtraction (n.) (Math.) The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.
Subtraction (n.) (Law) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
Note: Thus the subtraction of conjugal rights is when either the husband or wife withdraws from the other and lives separate without sufficient reason. The subtraction of a legacy is the withholding or detailing of it from the legatee by the executor. In like manner, the withholding of any service, rent, duty, or custom, is a subtraction, for which the law gives a remedy. -- Blackstone.
Subtraction (n.) An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one" [syn: subtraction, minus].
Subtraction (n.) The act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks" [syn: subtraction, deduction] [ant: addition].
Subtraction. () The act of withholding or detaining anything unlawfully.
Subtractive (a.) Tending, or having power, to subtract.
Subtractive (a.) (Math.) Having the negative sign, or sign minus.
Subtractive (a.) Constituting or involving subtraction; "a subtractive correction" [ant: additive].
Subtrahend (n.) (Math.) The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another. (the minuend) to find the difference.
Subtrahend (n.) The number to be subtracted from the minuend.
Subtranslucent (a.) Not perfectly translucent.
Subtransparent (a.) Not perfectly transparent.
Subtreasurer (n.) The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury. [U. S.]
Subtreasuries (n. pl. ) of Subtreasury.
Subtreasury (n.) A subordinate treasury,
or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at
Subtreasury (n.) A subordinate treasury or place of deposit.
Subtriangular (a.) Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. -- Darwin.
Subtribe (n.) (Bot. & Zool.) A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
Subtrihedral (a.) Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth. -- Owen.
Subtriple (a.) (Math.) Containing a third, or one part to three. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Subtriplicate (a.) (Math.) Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios.
Subtriplicate ratio, The ratio of the cube root; thus, the subtriplicate ratio of a to b is [cuberoot]a to [cuberoot]b, or [cuberoot]a/b.
Subtropical (a.) Nearly tropical.
Subtropical (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics; "even near the equator vegetation at 5000 ft is subtropical rather than tropical" [syn: subtropical, subtropic, semitropical, semitropic].
Subtruded (imp. & p. p.) of Subtrude.
Subtruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtrude.
Subtrude (v. t.) To place under; to insert. [R.]
Subturriculate (a.) (Zool.) Somewhat turriculate.
Subtutor (n.) An under tutor.
Subtypical (a.) (Zool.) Deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant. Subulate
Subulate (a.) Alt. of Subulated.
Subulated (a.) Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
Subulicornes (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of insects having slender or subulate antennae. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.
Subuliform (a.) Subulate.
Subulipalp (n.) (Zool.) One of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.
Subumbonal (a.) (Zool.) Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.
Subumbrella (n.) (Zool.) The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
Subundation (n.) A flood; a deluge. [Obs.] -- Huloet.
Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Suburb (n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." -- Chaucer.
[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous. -- Hallam.
Suburb (n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment. "The suburbs . . . of sorrow." -- Jer. Taylor.
The suburb of their straw-built citadel. -- Milton.
Suburb roister, a rowdy; a loafer. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Suburb (n.) A residential district located on the outskirts of a city [syn: suburb, suburbia, suburban area].
Suburban (a.) Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." -- Longfellow.
Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. -- Cowper.
Suburban (n.) One who dwells in the suburbs.
Suburban (a.) Relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs; "suburban population."
Suburbed (a.) Having a suburb or suburbs on its outer part. Suburbial.
Suburbial (a.) Alt. of Suburbian.
Suburbian (a.) Suburban. [Obs.] "Suburbial fields." -- Warton. "Suburbian muse." -- Dryden. Suburbicarian
Suburbicarian (a.) Alt. of Suburbicary.
Suburbicary (a.) Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. -- Barrow.
Suburethral (a.) (Anat.) Situated under the urethra, or under its orifice.
Subvaginal (a.) (Anat.) Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.
-ties (n. pl. ) of Subvariety.
Subvariety (n.) A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
Subvened (imp. & p. p.) of Subvene.
Subvening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subvene.
Subvene (v. i.) To come under, as a support or stay; to happen.
A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. -- Bp. Warburton.
Subventaneous (a.) Produced by the wind. [Obs.]
Subvention (n.) The act of coming under. "The subvention of a cloud." -- Stackhouse.
Subvention (n.) The act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.
Subvention (n.) A government aid or bounty.
Subvention (v. t.) To subventionize.
Subvention (n.) Grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution.
Subvention (n.) The act or process of providing aid or help of any sort.
Subvention (v.) Guarantee financial support of; "The opera tour was subvented by a bank" [syn: underwrite, subvention, subvent].
Subventionize (v. t.) To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.
Subventitious (a.) Helping; aiding; supporting. -- Urquhart.
Subverse (v. t.) To subvert. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Subversion (n.) 顛覆；覆滅；顛覆因素；破壞因素 The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.
The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. -- Evelyn.
Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. -- Rogers.
Subversion (n.) Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: {corruption}, {subversion}].
Subversion (n.) The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government [syn: {subversion}, {subversive activity}].
Subversionary (a.) Promoting destruction.
Subversive (a.) Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.
Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. -- Rogers.
Subversive (a.) In opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive].
Subversive (n.) A radical supporter of political or social revolution [syn: revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter].
Subversive (a.) (Formal) Trying to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system.
// Subversive elements/ groups in society.
Subversive ideas/ influences.
Subverted (imp. & p. p.) of Subvert.
Subverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subvert.
Subvert (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns. -- Shak.
This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. -- Locke.
Subvert (v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. -- 2 Tim. iii. 14.
Syn: To overturn; overthrow; destroy; invert; reverse; extinguish.
Subvert (v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.
They have a power given to them like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy.
Subvert (v.) Cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" [syn: overthrow, subvert, overturn, bring down].
Subvert (v.) Cor rupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect].
Subvert (v.) Destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken].
Subvert (v.) Destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis."
Subvertant (a.) (Her.) Reserved. [R.]
Subvertebral (a.) (Anat.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
Subverter (n.) One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower. -- Sir T. More.
Subvertible (a.) That may be subverted.
Subvitalized (a.) Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.
Subvocal (a. & n.) Same as Subtonic.
Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.
Subway (n.) An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by electricity provided by an electric line running through the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the center portion of cities; -- called also tube, and in Britain, underground. In certain other countries (as in France or Russia) it is called the metro.
Subworker (n.) A subordinate worker or helper. -- South.
Subzonal (a.) (Anat.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.
Subzygomatic (a.) (Anat.) Situated under the zygoma or zygomatic process.
Succade (n.) A sweetmeat. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Succade (n.) pl. (Com.) Sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections. -- Blakely.
Succade gourd. (Bot.) Same as Vegetable marrow, under Vegetable.
Succedane (n.) A succedaneum. [Obs.]
Succedaneous (a.) Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. -- Sir T. Browne.
Succedanea (n. pl. ) of Succedaneum.
Succedaneum (n.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute; Specifically.
Succedaneum (n.) (Med.) A remedy used as a substitute for another.
In lieu of me, you will have a very charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope. -- Walpole.
Succeeded (imp. & p. p.) of Succeed.
Succeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Succeed.
Succeed (v. t.) 繼……之後；接續；接替；繼承 To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
As he saw him nigh succeed. -- Spenser.
Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit. [Obs. & R.] -- Shak.
Succeed (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. -- Sir T. Browne.
Succeed (v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote. [R.]
Succeed my wish and second my design. -- Dryden.
Succeed (v. i.) 成功，辦妥；獲得成效 [（+in）]；發跡；興旺 [（+in）]；接著發生；接連 [（+to）]；繼任；繼承 [（+to）] To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. -- Sir M. Hale.
Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! -- Milton.
Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
No woman shall succeed in Salique land. -- Shak.
Succeed (v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. -- Shak.
Succeed (v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition. -- Dryden.
Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English. -- Dryden.
Succeed (v. i.) To go under cover. [A latinism. Obs.]
Will you to the cooler cave succeed! -- Dryden.
Syn: To follow; pursue. See Follow.