<B>subtotal, </B>adjective, noun, verb, <B>-taled,</B> <B>-taling</B> or (especially British) <B>-talled,</B> <B>-talling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> not quite total; less than complete. <BR> <I>Ex. Subtotal counts will be handed to the press every 30 minutes (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> something less than the total; partial sum. <BR> <I>Ex. The figure you see is a subtotal and not the final amount.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to find the subtotal of. <BR> <I>Ex. Subtotal the third column of figures.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to amount to the subtotal of. <BR> <I>Ex. This column of figures subtotals 107,963.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subtract">
<B>subtract, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to take away. <BR> <I>Ex. Subtract 2 from 10 and you have 8.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to take away (something) from a whole. noun <B>subtracter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="subtraction">
<B>subtraction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of taking one number or quantity from another; finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. <BR> <I>Ex. 10-2 = 8 is a simple subtraction.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the act or process of taking away. <DD><B> b. </B>the fact or state of being taken away. </DL>
<A NAME="subtractive">
<B>subtractive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with subtraction. <DD><B> 2. </B>tending to subtract; having power to subtract. <DD><B> 3. </B>to be subtracted; having the minus sign. </DL>
<A NAME="subtractiveprocess">
<B>subtractive process,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a process in color photography, in which two or more colorants are used to absorb, in varying degree, their complementary colors from white light. </DL>
<A NAME="subtrahend">
<B>subtrahend, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a number or quantity to be subtracted from another number or quantity. <BR> <I>Ex. In 10-2 = 8, the subtrahend is 2.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subtreasury">
<B>subtreasury, </B>noun, pl. <B>-uries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a branch treasury. <DD><B> 2. </B>any branch of the United States treasury. </DL>
<A NAME="subtribe">
<B>subtribe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a division of a tribe, especially of animals or plants. </DL>
<A NAME="subtriplicate">
<B>subtriplicate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> being that of the cube roots of the quantities. (Example:) 2:3 is the subtriplicate ratio of 8:27. </DL>
<B>subtropical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>bordering on the tropics. <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of subtropical regions; nearly tropical. <BR> <I>Ex. to swim in warm, subtropical waters.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subtropics">
<B>subtropics, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> a region or regions bordering on the tropics. </DL>
<A NAME="subtype">
<B>subtype, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a subordinate type; type included in a general type. </DL>
<A NAME="subtypical">
<B>subtypical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a subtype. <DD><B> 2. </B>not quite typical, or true to the type. </DL>
<A NAME="subulate">
<B>subulate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) slender, more or less cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped. <BR> <I>Ex. a subulate leaf.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subunit">
<B>subunit, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lower or secondary unit; unit of a unit. </DL>
<A NAME="suburb">
<B>suburb, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a town, village, or other community near a city or larger town. <DD><B> 2. </B>any district just outside the boundary of a city or town. <BR> <I>Ex. He was aware that the U.S. with its ... growing suburbs ... could well afford to buy more new cars than it ever had before (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the suburbs,</B> </I>a residential section or sections near the boundary of a city or town; outlying parts; outskirts. <BR> <I>Ex. Many people who work in the city live in the suburbs.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suburban">
<B>suburban, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of, having to do with, or in a suburb. <BR> <I>Ex. a suburban school, a suburban shopping center. We have excellent suburban train service.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of a suburb or its inhabitants. <BR> <I>Ex. suburban life.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=suburbanite.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="suburbanite">
<B>suburbanite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who lives in a suburb. <BR> <I>Ex. Suburbanites who get carried away by "do-it-yourself" projects often get carried away, period! (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suburbanization">
<B>suburbanization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of suburbanizing or being suburbanized. <BR> <I>Ex. The suburbanization of American life and growth of the middle class (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suburbanize">
<B>suburbanize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make suburban. <BR> <I>Ex. to suburbanize a district, suburbanize a rural village.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="suburbia">
<B>suburbia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the suburbs of a particular city or town. <DD><B> b. </B>suburbs in general. <BR> <I>Ex. In our part of suburbia, there's a get-together somewhere almost every week (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>people who live in the suburbs; suburbanites. </DL>
<A NAME="suburbicarian">
<B>suburbicarian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the dioceses (now six in number) around Rome of which the pope is metropolitan and whose bishops are cardinals. </DL>
<A NAME="subvariety">
<B>subvariety, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a subordinate or minor variety, especially of a domestic animal or cultivated plant. </DL>
<A NAME="subvene">
<B>subvene, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-vened,</B> <B>-vening.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to come as a relief or remedy or in support. </DL>
<A NAME="subvention">
<B>subvention, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>money granted to aid or support some cause, institution, or undertaking; subsidy. <BR> <I>Ex. A subvention will insure the publication of his doctoral thesis.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>the providing of help, support, or relief. <DD><B> b. </B>an instance of this. </DL>
<A NAME="subventionary">
<B>subventionary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a subvention. </DL>
<A NAME="subverbo">
<B>sub verbo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) under the word; under the heading (directing the reader to a reference). (Abbr:) s.v. </DL>
<A NAME="subversal">
<B>subversal, </B>noun. <B>=subversion.</B></DL>
<A NAME="subversion">
<B>subversion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of subverting or condition of being subverted; overthrow; destruction; ruin. <BR> <I>Ex. They steer clear of harsher reprisals and keep the road open for victory by the more classic means of subversion (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything that tends to overthrow or destroy; cause of ruin. <BR> <I>Ex. ... protecting from subversion either from within or without (E. H. Litchfield).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subversive">
<B>subversive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> tending to overthrow; causing ruin; destructive. <BR> <I>Ex. He was rearrested on an old indictment charging him with being a member of a subversive organization advocating the forceful overthrow of the Government (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person who seeks to overthrow or undermine a government or other existing institution. adv. <B>subversively.</B> noun <B>subversiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="subvert">
<B>subvert, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to overthrow (something established or existing); cause the downfall or destruction of; ruin; destroy. <BR> <I>Ex. Dictators subvert democracy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to undermine the principles of; corrupt. <BR> <I>Ex. A Red plan to subvert all Africa came to light (Newsweek).</I> noun <B>subverter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="subvertible">
<B>subvertible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be subverted. </DL>
<A NAME="subvertical">
<B>subvertical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> almost vertical. </DL>
<A NAME="subviral">
<B>subviral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or caused by a subvirus. <BR> <I>Ex. subviral carcinogenesis.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subvirus">
<B>subvirus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a viral protein or other basic constituent of a virus that has some of the properties of a virus. <BR> <I>Ex. Research in the United States and England linked several human diseases, including multiple sclerosis, with a tiny subvirus that causes the sheep disease, scrapie (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subvocal">
<B>subvocal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with the formulation of words in the mind, with little or no vocal articulation. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=subaudible.</B> adv. <B>subvocally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="subway">
<B>subway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) an electric railroad running beneath the surface of the streets in a city. <DD><B> 2. </B>an underground passage, tunnel, or way, as for conveying water and gas pipes, telegraph, telephone, or electrical wires, or for pedestrians to pass from one area to another, as beneath a busy street or railroad station. </DL>
<A NAME="subzero">
<B>subzero, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>below zero on the scale of a thermometer. <BR> <I>Ex. subzero temperatures.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>characterized by or used in subzero temperatures. <BR> <I>Ex. subzero weather, subzero lubricants.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="subzone">
<B>subzone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a subdivision of a zone. </DL>
<A NAME="suc">
<B>suc-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (prefix.) the form of <B>sub-</B> before <I>c,</I> as in <BR> <I>Ex. succeed.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sucaryl">
<B>Sucaryl, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a sweet-tasting, white, crystalline calcium or sodium salt, used as a substitute for sugar; cyclamate calcium or sodium. </DL>
<A NAME="succah">
<B>succah, </B>noun. <B>=sukkah.</B></DL>
<A NAME="succedaneous">
<B>succedaneous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> acting or serving as a substitute. </DL>
<A NAME="succedaneum">
<B>succedaneum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nea,</B> <B>-neums.</B> <B>=substitute.</B></DL>
