"sub in" meaning in English

See sub in in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: subs in [present, singular, third-person], subbing in [participle, present], subbed in [participle, past], subbed in [past]
Etymology: From sub (from substitute) + in. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sub in (third-person singular simple present subs in, present participle subbing in, simple past and past participle subbed in)
  1. (especially sports) To replace something or take someone's place, Tags: especially Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-sub_in-en-verb-agiq5mfG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (in) Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sub in meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sub out"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sub (from substitute) + in.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subs in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subbing in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subbed in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subbed in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sub in (third-person singular simple present subs in, present participle subbing in, simple past and past participle subbed in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (in)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer",
          "text": "As the Medford native was replacing McKennie, Shaq Moore ran off the bench to sub in for Dest. And England manager Gareth Southgate made another move while he could, Marcus Rashford for Bukayo Saka.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To replace something or take someone's place,"
      ],
      "id": "en-sub_in-en-verb-agiq5mfG",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(especially sports) To replace something or take someone's place,"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sub in"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sub out"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sub (from substitute) + in.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "subs in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subbing in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subbed in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "subbed in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sub in (third-person singular simple present subs in, present participle subbing in, simple past and past participle subbed in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (in)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer",
          "text": "As the Medford native was replacing McKennie, Shaq Moore ran off the bench to sub in for Dest. And England manager Gareth Southgate made another move while he could, Marcus Rashford for Bukayo Saka.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To replace something or take someone's place,"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(especially sports) To replace something or take someone's place,"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "especially"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sub in"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.