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SANDWICH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sandwich" is a kind of...):

snack food (food for light meals or for eating between meals)

Meronyms (parts of "sandwich"):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandwich"):

butty (a sandwich)

ham sandwich (a sandwich made with a filling of sliced ham)

chicken sandwich (a sandwich made with a filling of sliced chicken)

club sandwich; three-decker; triple-decker (made with three slices of usually toasted bread)

open-face sandwich; open sandwich (sandwich without a covering slice of bread)

beefburger; burger; hamburger (a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients)

tunaburger (a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef)

hot dog; hotdog; red hot (a frankfurter served hot on a bun)

Sloppy Joe (ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun)

bomber; Cuban sandwich; grinder; hero; hero sandwich; hoagie; hoagy; Italian sandwich; poor boy; sub; submarine; submarine sandwich; torpedo; wedge; zep (a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States)

gyro (a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread)

bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich; BLT (sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce)

Reuben (a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread)

western; western sandwich (a sandwich made from a western omelet)

wrap (a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla)

Holonyms ("sandwich" is a part of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

Derivation:

sandwich (make into a sandwich)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects

Example:

She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "sandwich" is one way to...):

enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into a sandwich

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "sandwich" is one way to...):

devise; get up; machinate; organise; organize; prepare (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The Cambridge researchers, working with colleagues in Costa Rica and Japan, used high-quality layers of PST with metallic electrodes sandwiched in between.

(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)

He ran out and ran in, smoked incessantly, played snatches on his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions which I put to him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After leaving you at the station I went for a charming walk through some admirable Surrey scenery to a pretty little village called Ripley, where I had my tea at an inn, and took the precaution of filling my flask and of putting a paper of sandwiches in my pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Grant and her tambour frame were not without their use: it was all in harmony; and as everything will turn to account when love is once set going, even the sandwich tray, and Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The study, led by Vance, provides new theoretical evidence for the team's "club sandwich" model, first proposed last year.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the day when I was articled, no festivity took place, beyond my having sandwiches and sherry into the office for the clerks, and going alone to the theatre at night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By modeling these processes using computers, the team came up with an ocean sandwiched between up to three ice layers, in addition to the rocky seafloor.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Norwood was many miles too near, and we reached it many hours too soon; but Mr. Spenlow came to himself a little short of it, and said, You must come in, Copperfield, and rest! and I consenting, we had sandwiches and wine-and-water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)