SANDWICH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandwich mean? 

• SANDWICH (noun)
  The noun SANDWICH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SANDWICH used as a noun is very rare.

• SANDWICH (verb)
  The verb SANDWICH has 2 senses:

1. make into a sandwich

2. insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects

  Familiarity information: SANDWICH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDWICH (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)

• SANDWICH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sandwich    ... he / she / it sandwiches   
Past simple: sandwiched   
Past participle: sandwiched   
-ing form: sandwiching   

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men

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

 Context examples 

Cake, sandwiches, fruit, and coffee will be all that is necessary, I suppose?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And that then they had come to me, and had had bottled porter and sandwiches on the road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This "snow" melts again before reaching the top of the ocean, possibly leaving slush in the middle of the moon sandwich.

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

The extracellular domains are immunoglobulin-like beta-sandwiches comprising usually 7 strands in the two sheets.

(Cadherin, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Weston proposed having no regular supper; merely sandwiches, &c., set out in the little room; but that was scouted as a wretched suggestion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The 3D structure of the C2 domain of synaptotagmin has been reported, the domain forms an eight-stranded sandwich constructed around a conserved 4-stranded motif, designated a C2 key.

(C2 Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition.

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

Leah, make a little hot negus and cut a sandwich or two: here are the keys of the storeroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It spans approximately 80-100 amino acid residues folded into an 11-stranded sandwich, which sometimes contain small helical insertions between the loops connecting the strands.

(FHA Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of antibody-excess, non-competition radioimmunometric assay in which ligand is sandwiched between an immobilized antibody on a solid phase and a radiolabeled antibody raised against a different epitope of the ligand.

(Immunoradiometric Assay, NCI Thesaurus)