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sandwich
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sandwich has 1 sense
- sandwich(n = noun.food) Array - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them; Array is a part of meal, repast
has parts: bread, breadstuff, staff of life
has particulars: butty, ham sandwich, chicken sandwich, club sandwich, three-decker, triple-decker, open-face sandwich, open sandwich, beefburger, burger, hamburger, tunaburger, hot dog, hotdog, red hot, sloppy joe, bomber, cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep, gyro, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, blt, reuben, western, western sandwich, wrap
is a kind of snack food
Derived form verb sandwich1
Verb sandwich has 2 senses
- sandwich(v = verb.creation) Array - make into a sandwich; Array is one way to devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare
- sandwich(v = verb.contact) Array - insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects; "She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men" is one way to enter, infix, insert, introduce
Derived form noun sandwich1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
sandwich, n. [Named from the Earl of Sandwich.].
Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them. [1913 Webster]
sandwich, v. t.
To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sandwich, n. & v.
--n.
1 two or more slices of usu. buttered bread with a filling of meat, cheese, etc., between them.
2 a cake of two or more layers with jam or cream between (bake a sponge sandwich).
--v.tr.
1 put (a thing, statement, etc.) between two of another character.
2 squeeze in between others (sat sandwiched in the middle).
--n.
1 two or more slices of usu. buttered bread with a filling of meat, cheese, etc., between them.
2 a cake of two or more layers with jam or cream between (bake a sponge sandwich).
--v.tr.
1 put (a thing, statement, etc.) between two of another character.
2 squeeze in between others (sat sandwiched in the middle).
Idiom
sandwich-board one of two advertisement boards carried by a sandwich-man. sandwich course a course of training with alternate periods of practical experience and theoretical instruction. sandwich-man (pl. -men) a man who walks the streets with sandwich-boards hanging before and behind.
Etymology
4th Earl of Sandwich, Engl. nobleman d. 1792, said to have eaten food in this form so as not to leave the gaming-table
THESAURUS
sandwich
BLT, Dagwood sandwich, Sloppy Joe, Swiss cheese sandwich, bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, canape, cheeseburger, corned beef sandwich, double-decker sandwich, drag in, edge in, egg salad sandwich, foist in, fudge in, grilled cheese sandwich, grinder, ham sandwich, hamburger, hoagy, hot dog, implant in, inject in, insert in, insinuate in, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, lug in, pastrami sandwich, poor boy, put between, run in, smuggle in, squeeze in, submarine sandwich, throw in, thrust in, tuna salad sandwich, tunaburger, wedge in, work in, worm in
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