English > sandwich: 3 senses > noun 1, foodMeaning | Two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them. |
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Part of | meal, repast | The food served and eaten at one time |
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Parts | bread, breadstuff, staff of life | Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
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Narrower | Reuben | A hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread |
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Sloppy Joe | ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun |
bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT | sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce |
bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, 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) |
butty | A sandwich |
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 |
gyro | A Greek sandwich |
ham sandwich | A sandwich made with a filling of sliced ham |
hamburger, beefburger, burger | A sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients |
hotdog, hot dog, red hot | A frankfurter served hot on a bun |
open-face sandwich, open sandwich | sandwich without a covering slice of bread |
tunaburger | A sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef |
western, western sandwich | A sandwich made from a western omelet |
wrap | A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla |
Broader | snack food | Food for light meals or for eating between meals |
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Spanish | bocadillo, bocata, emparedado, sánduche, sándwich |
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Catalan | badall, entrepà, sandvitx |
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Verbs | sandwich | make into a sandwich |
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