Sub vs. Wedge — What's the Difference?

A submarine

A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an object, or hold an object in place.

A subscription

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.

A substitute, especially in a sporting team

Something shaped like a wedge

A subeditor

A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.

An advance or loan against expected income

Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption

Replace or be replaced; substitute

Something that forces an opening or a beginning

Lend or advance a sum to (someone) against expected income

(Meteorology) See ridge.

Subedit

(Sports) An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball sharply upward, as from sand.

(Nautical) A submarine.

A shoe having a heel that extends across the shank to the half sole, forming a continuous undersurface. Also called wedgie.

A submarine sandwich.

Downstate New York See submarine sandwich.

A substitute.

One of the various triangular marks that are the basic structural elements of cuneiform writing symbols.

To act as a substitute

(Sports) In snow skiing, the snowplow.

To put or use (a person or thing) as a substitute

To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge

Usage Problem To replace; substitute

To fix in place or tighten with a wedge

A submarine.

To crowd or squeeze into a limited space

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

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.

(informal) A substitute, often in sports or teaching.

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

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

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

A subtitle.

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. Category:en:Shapes

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

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

(colloquial) A subeditor.

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

(colloquial) A subcontractor.

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

(slang) A subwoofer.

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

A submissive.

One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

A subordinate.

(obsolete) An ingot.

A subaltern.

Silver or items made of silver collectively.

A subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.

A quantity of money.

(colloquial) Subsistence money: part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.

A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

(internet slang) subreddit

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

To substitute for.

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

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

A háček.

To replace (a player) with a substitute.

(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

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

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

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

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

To subtitle (usually a film or television program).

(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.

To lend.

(meteorology) A wedge tornado.

To subscribe.

(finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).

(BDSM) To take a submissive role.

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

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

(transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.

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

(ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.

Under.

(transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

A subordinate; a subaltern.

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

A shortened form of submarine, the boat.

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

A shortened form of submarine sandwich; also called hero, hero sandwich, and grinder.

(transitive) To cleave with a wedge.

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

(transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.

A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes

(transitive) To shape into a wedge.

Be a substitute;

A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; - so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

A golf club having an iron head with the face nearly horizontal, used for lofting the golf ball at a high angle, as when hitting the ball out of a sand trap or the rough.

To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.

To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.

To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

Any shape that is triangular in cross section

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

A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation

A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Fix, force, or implant;

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;