under
Part of speech: prep
adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: gambling
games
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English under, from Old English under, from Proto-West Germanic *undar, from Proto-Germanic *under, from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér (“under”) and *h₁entér (“inside”).
Cognate with German unter, Dutch onder, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish under, Faroese and Icelandic undir; also Old High German untar (“under”), Sanskrit अन्तर् (antar, “within”), Latin infrā (“below, beneath”) and inter (“between, among”).
Inflected forms:
form: more under
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most under
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
pos: prep
examples: We found some shade under a tree.
Quick, stuff the cash under the mattress!
There is nothing new under the sun.
There is an oil leak under the car.
The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
gloss: Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
pos: prep
examples: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!
gloss: From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
pos: prep
examples: I crawled under the fence.
There is a tunnel under the English Channel.
gloss: Less than.
pos: prep
examples: Interest rates are now under 1%.
We can get there in under an hour.
gloss: Subject to.
pos: prep
examples: We were constantly under bombardment.
I can't live under these circumstances.
The matter is under investigation.
gloss: Subject to.
pos: prep
examples: He served in World War II under General Omar Bradley.
During the pandemic, we had to live under severe restrictions.
Under the law and concession agreement with other parties, the private company must pay taxes in time and on a right amount.
There is general agreement that his military forces were organized into six divisions. They were stationed at the following places: at Ti-hua under the command of Liu Hsi-tsen, at T'a-ch'eng under Chiang Sung-lin, at Ili under Niu Shih, at A-shan under Wei Chen-kuo, at A-k'o-su under Chang Tzu-t'ing, and at Ko-shih-ko-erh (Kashgar) nominally under Tsou-ying, but in reality under Chin's brother, Chin Shu-chih.
He was then denied by a magnificent tackle from captain Terry as Liverpool continued to press - but Chelsea survived as the memories of the nightmare under Villas-Boas faded even further into the background.
Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.
gloss: Within the category, classification or heading of.
pos: prep
examples: File this under "i" for "ignore".
gloss: In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
pos: prep
tags: figuratively
examples: England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
to collapse under stress; to give in under interrogation
gloss: Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
pos: prep
examples: J.K. Rowling has written a crime novel called 'The Cuckoo's Calling' under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
He writes books under the name John Smith.
She now lives under a new identity.
gloss: In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: pulled under by the currents
weighed under by worry
The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain / Could not bring his proud soul under.
gloss: So as to pass beneath something.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: There's quite a gap, so you may be able to sneak under.
gloss: Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient.
pos: adv
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
usually
examples: The plants were underwatered.
Women are under-represented.
gloss: In or into an unconscious state.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: It took the hypnotist several minutes to make his subject go under.
gloss: Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The COVID-19 epidemic and shutdown took some businesses under.
Big-box store and online retailing have driven many specialty and local retail stores under.
gloss: Lower; beneath something.
pos: adj
examples: This treatment protects the under portion of the car from rust.
(in compounds) underbelly, underside, undershirt, undersecretary
The advantages he gains are of double security to him ; first, by the support of his haunches, being at all times more under than before, he learns to be more active with his hind-quarters
If you allow the right hand to turn under more than the left, a pull will result, and if the left is more under than the right, a sliced ball will surely follow.
The waves are so steep, they crash so fast and furious I'm more under than up.
gloss: In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
pos: adj
examples: The army could not keep the people under.
I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.
When ready for sea we went up to Greenhithe, that their lordships might inspect us, and then to Portsmouth, to take troops to Cork, a pleasant trip; but the troops left us a legacy of "mahogany flats," with which their beds were so swarming that we never got them under.
gloss: Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Ensure the patient is sufficiently under.
gloss: Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: This chicken is a bit under. (insufficiently cooked)
This bag of apples feels under. (of insufficient weight)
My pay packet last week was £10 under. (of insufficient monetary amount)
My round of golf today was three under. (under par)
gloss: The amount by which an actual total is less than the expected or required amount.
pos: noun
examples: […] standard cash count forms used to record the count and any overs or unders.
gloss: Something having a particular property that is low or too low.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I went fishing but caught nothing but unders.
Usually I am at least ten over on that course, but I have shot a couple of unders.
gloss: A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such as points scored in a game, will be below a certain stated value.
pos: noun
Synonyms: below
beneath
underneath
Antonyms: above
over
Derived words: under-
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: sota
lang: Dutch
word: onder
lang: Finnish
word: alamainen
lang: French
word: sous
lang: German
word: unter
lang: Japanese
word: ...下に
roman: ...shita ni
lang: Norman
word: souôs
lang: Polish
word: pod
lang: Portuguese
word: sob
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fo
lang: Spanish
word: so
lang: Spanish
word: bajo
lang: Spanish
word: sota
lang: Swedish
word: under
lang: Finnish
word: huonommin
lang: French
word: moins
lang: Japanese
word: 下の
roman: shita no
lang: Japanese
word: したの
roman: shita no
lang: Romanian
word: sub
lang: Tok Pisin
word: ananit