submarine

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1. submarine - Noun

2. submarine - Adjective

3. submarine - Verb

4. submarine - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.

A submarine plant or animal.

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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Edsger W. Dijkstra

I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this. Alec Issigonis

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.' Charles Stross

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science? John Buchan

[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly. Miriam Makeba

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H. G. Wells

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