subterrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterrains
Senses: examples: text: In this way at least a crude picture of the subterrain can be built up during the survey.
ref: 1982, The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society:
text: Two subterrains have been recognised, separated by thrust boundaries: a) Baltic Cover Thrust Sheets b) Crystalline Basement Thrust Sheets
ref: 1985, Rodney A. Gayer, The Tectonic evolution of the Caledonide-Appalachian Orogen:
text: The Kabarginskiy subterrain is represented by rocks of the Upper Proterozoic and Lower Paleozoic, in the form of a band of sublatitudinal strike running through the northern part of the region.
ref: 1999, Geology of the Pacific Ocean - Volume 14, Issues 4-6, page 548:
text: Although our conclusions follow from the numerical analyses of a specific case of the city of Zagreb, they are valid wherever the subterrain is complex enough to produce significantly different raypaths when the local soil is considered instead of the bedrock.
ref: 2004, Giuliano F. Panza, Ivanka Pakaleva, Concettina Nunziata, Seismic Ground Motion In Large Urban Areas, →ISBN, page 1036:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The bedrock or rock layer that lies beneath the soil and superficial features of an area.
examples: text: Subterrains have been found in almost all the nations of antiquity; but philosophers have put themselves to little trouble to discover the motives for making these excavations, which were much varied in their forms.
ref: 1833, John Billington, The Architectural Director: Being an Approved Guide to Architects:
text: At the latter place you will see human habitations scooped in the rock, and families living in subterrains — what is the word ? — caverns.
ref: 1890, Sabine Baring-Gould, Jacquetta and Other Stories, page 104:
text: Like the subterrain of mount Olivet, it resembled the mouth of an oven or a well ; and its diameter was at the most four cubits.
ref: 1984, George Stanley Faber, The Origin of Pagan Idolatry - Volume 3, page 260:
glosses: A cave or underground room.
examples: text: The land under Rabbit seems to move, with the addition of yet another citizen to the subterrain of the dead.
ref: 2006, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich, →ISBN:
text: Her roar of determination echoing throughout the subterrain, she made the leap with a foot to spare, but landed hard, and the pain of the sharp rock on her bare soles made her somersault forward not once but three times.
ref: 2011, Mike Wild, The Trials of Trass Kathra, →ISBN:
text: You are in a private penitentiary in the subterrain of Antarctica.
ref: 2011, Mason Joiner, Bantam: A Novella, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Welcome to the subway system of New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or commonly called the MTA by everyone but the residents who will simply tell you they get on a train or ride the subway because in Manhattan all rail transport is underground unlike the outlying boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx where the trains climb out of this subterrain and are raised above ground on rail tracks supported by steel girders, hence the El, common speak for the elevated.
ref: 2013, Robert H. T. W. Nieder, Everything Is Just Yesterday with Lots of Tomorrows, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: An underground region.
examples: text: The roots of the misogyny, homophobia, and anti-Semitism that indelibly mark Modernism are to be found in the subterrain of changing sexual and political mores that constituted belle époque Faubourg society, and it is here that the story of these women begins — in Edith Wharton's drawing room.
ref: 1986, Shari Benstock, Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940, page ix:
text: For her and others, statements reverberated in enduring moral subterrains.
ref: 2003, Robert R. Desjarlais, Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths Among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists, →ISBN:
text: Thus, I do not use the term interchangeably with physicotheology, which I regard as a subterrain of natural theology, focusing particularly on purposive and adaptive design manifested in nature.
ref: 2010, Michael Funk Deckard, Peter Losonczi, Philosophy Begins in Wonder, →ISBN:
text: In moving the subterrain of inquiry, the temporal scales of our memorying and becoming (Grosz 1999) of wild, alien, uncanny and irreal experiences of the vital environments of vibrant nature are worth speculating about for further inquiry into both the enablements and constraints of those body~space relations of children's dromospherical timescapes with the Anthrop/obscene.
ref: 2017, Marilyn Fleer, Bert van Oers, International Handbook of Early Childhood Education, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: An underlying basis or undercurrent.