underhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)hɛd/
Forms: form: underheads
Etymology: From under- + head.
Senses: examples: text: wiser discretions, that have the thread of reason to conduct them, offend without a pardon; whereas underheads may stumble without dishonour.
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
text: Well, booby, what's that to you, underhead?
ref: 1697, Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress:
glosses: A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead.
examples: text: Data in the column headed "Underhead" are demerit ratings related to the degree of darkening of the underhead. A rating of 0 indicates a completely black underhead, while a rating of 10 indicates a completely clean underhead.
ref: 1973, Maurice William Ranney, Lubricant Additives - Issue 2, page 50:
text: The valves were removed from the engine at 25 hour intervals and zyglo inspected for cracks in the underhead and stem.
ref: 1981, Wear and Fracture Prevention, page 293:
text: Other important tasks accomplished were the removal of the neutron shield tanks, decontamination of the reactor building air coolers, closed-circuit television inspection of the 282 ft. elevation, raising and parking of all eight axial-power-shaping rod leadscrews, and first steps toward a complete characterization of radiological conditions of the reactor-vessel underhead.
ref: 1983, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Annual Report - Volume 88, page 37:
text: The shape of the underhead is very important: it determines the tightness of the reversed bucktail and the shape of the finished head.
ref: 2006, Keith Fulsher, Thunder Creek Flies, page 61:
text: However, if the bolt or screw is the flat-top design (where the top is flat and the underhead is chamfered for a countersunk fit) , length always denotes overall length, from top of the head to the tip of the threads.
ref: 2008, Mike Mavrigian, High Performance Fasteners and Plumbing, page 5:
glosses: The area directly below the head of something. (any sense)
examples: text: So far as absolute strength for carying the load is concerned, this reduction of area need cause no alarm, but the effect of the indentation of the underhead or base of the rail is a different and I fear a serious matter, because it is well known, that it indent a piece of steel and subject it to a blow produces immediate fracture […],
ref: 1877 March 2, James Liveset, “Letters”, in Engineering, volume 23, page 164:
text: The bolt holes are then redrilled and a good square-ended, but slightly shortened, rail with a full underhead section for the splice bar is obtained at slight cost, that will give good service when relaid.
ref: 1917, Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association:
text: In a rail splicing structure, a rail and splice bars disposed for cooperative bolting assembly therewith , the rail having a new underhead formation as compared with a standard rail of substantially equal cross-sectional area, said new underhead formation comprising outer bottom corner fillets extending downwardly and inwardly from approximately the gauge line […]
ref: 1941, “2265128 Railway Rail”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 295:
glosses: The base of a railroad track.
examples: text: I think prices would go up, for I know something of the importance of overhead and underhead cost as affecting the price of the goods you have to sell.
ref: 1911, National Brick Manufacturers' Association of the United States of America, Official Report, Annual Convention, page 113:
text: Mr. M. Caflisch of the Bronx Consumers' Ice Co., New York City, was requested to address the convention and spoke briefly on the necessity for knowing the actual total cost of manufacturing and handling ice as well as of harvesting, storing and selling ice, for he thought if ice men really understood how much the "overhead" and "underhead" cost is, they would hesitate at the price cutting that was so evident in some sections during the past Summer and prevented dealers in those sections from making a reasonable profit in spite of the excellent season which they enjoyed.
ref: 1911, Industrial Refrigeration - Volumes 40-41, page 224:
text: Periodically appraise the organization structure to determine what adjustments are needed to improve operating effectiveness and to reduce total costs, both overhead and underhead.
ref: 1961, AMA Management Bulletin - Issues 13-24, page 9:
text: But I have expenses to consider. Do you know what they are? And then there's my overhead and my underhead and my in-betweens.
ref: 2011, Jon Sharpe, The Trailsman #359: Platte River Gauntlet, page 21:
topics: accounting
business
finance
manufacturing
glosses: direct costs.