Marine and Submarine

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Marine adjective - Of or relating to the sea.

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Submarine and marine are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Submarine" instead an adjective "Marine".

Nearby Words: mariner, marina, Marin

Submarine adjective - Living, lying, or occurring below the surface of the water.

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Marine and submarine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Marine" instead an adjective "Submarine".

Nearby Words: submariner, submarining

An NCIS episode had a whale rights activist try to kill a submarine crew because he believed the SONAR they used was hurting the marine life.

Source: Animal Wrongs Group
Shout-Out: The submarine used by Angela to observe marine reptiles recalls that of Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (as lampshaded by the host himself).

Source: Series / Planet Of Dinosaurs
And thus, the Germans embraced the submarine as a means of naval warfare, and thus the word U-Boat (Unterseeboot, "undersea boat" — or "sub"-"marine") entered dictionaries, with all submarines being referred to as "boats" to this day.

Source: Useful Notes / History of Naval Warfare

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