# underneath
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ʌndəˈniːθ/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
* (US) IPA: /ʌndɚˈniθ/, /ʌndɚˈnið/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːθ, -iːð

### Adverb

underneath (not comparable)
* Below; in a place beneath.
** 1825, Isaac Taylor, Scenes of British Wealth: In Produce, Manufactures, and Commerce, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry At-home Travellers‎:connected with it underneath, you see a very fine hair-spring.
    I can't take my sweater off: I amn't wearing anything else on underneath.
* On the underside or lower face.
** 1832, Georges Cuvier, translated by Edward Griffith, edited by Georges Cuvier, Edward Pidgeon, and Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization‎, volume 14, published 2012, →ISBN:No insects exhibit, like them, what may be termed four net-work eyes. It is very easy to perceive them in looking at the animal from above, and then examining it underneath
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Translations
### Preposition

underneath
* Under, below, beneath.
    Underneath the water, all was calm.
    We flew underneath the bridge.
    We looked underneath the table.
* Under the control or power of.
    There was little freedom underneath the jackboot.

#### Derived terms

* get underneath someone's skin
* underneath one's breath

#### Translations
### Adjective

underneath (not comparable)
* Under, lower.
    You can have the underneath bunk.
** 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:The mess in the kitchen was one thing. The way the place smelled was another—some sort of chemistry-lab stink on top, some other smell underneath it. He was afraid the underneath smell might be blood.

#### Translations
### Noun

underneath (usually uncountable, plural underneaths)
* The bottom of something.
    The underneath of the aircraft was painted blue.
** 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia‎, page 64:Nawnim yelped, heaved away, struck his head on the underneath of the bed, and rolled into view bawling.
** 2002, Mary Ann Caws, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology‎, page 229:It was a monolith of a golden color, opening at its base on to a cavern: its underneath was hollowed out by water.
** 2010, Molly Brodak, A Little Middle of the Night‎, page 13:I have been looking for an underneath I couldn't see.
** 2011, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Express: Good Food Fast‎:they harden up a little as they cool, and they should be damp within; that's what makes them chewy, so don't worry that the underneaths of the macaroons look sticky.
* A background radio sound track played during a specific announcement or program.
** 2009, Jay Trachtenberg (radio host), KUT-FM Radio, Austin, Texas, 17 Dec.:
    The underneath is music from the latest album by [...].

#### Translations
### References

* “underneath”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “underneath”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* unadherent