Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 11
Underpart (n.) A subordinate part.
It should be lightened with underparts of mirth. -- Dryden.
Underpart (n.) A part lying on the lower side or underneath an animal's body; "the warbler has a white throat and underparts"; "a woodland mouse with white underparts."
Underpay (v. t.) To pay inadequately.
Underpay (v.) Pay too little [ant: overpay].
Underpeep (v. t.) To peep under. "The flame . . . would underpeep her lids." [R.] -- Shak.
Underpeer (v. t.) To peer under. [R.]
Underpeopled (a.) Not fully peopled.
Compare: Underpitch
Underpitch (v. t.) [imp. Underpight.] To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.]
He drank and well his girdle underpight. -- Chaucer.
Underpight () imp. of Underpitch.
Underpinned (imp. & p. p.) of Underpin.
Underpinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Underpin.
Underpin (v. t.) To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
Underpin (v. t.) To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.
Underpinning (n.) The act of one who underpins; the act of supporting by stones, masonry, or the like.
Underpinning (n.) (Arch.) That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.
Underpinning (n.) (Arch.) The foundation, esp. of a frame house.
Underpight (imp.) of Underpitch.
Underpitch (v. t.) To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.]
He drank and well his girdle underpight. -- Chaucer.
Underplay (v. i.) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
Underplay (v. i.) (Card Playing) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
Underplay (n.) (Card Playing) The act of underplaying.
Underplay (v.) Act (a role) with great restraint [syn: underact, underplay] [ant: ham, ham it up, overact, overplay].
Underplay (v.) Play a card lower than (a held high card).
Underplot (n.) A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. -- Dryden.
Underplot (n.) A clandestine scheme; a trick. -- Addison.
Underpoise (v. t.) To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue. [R.] -- Marston.
Underpossessor (n.) One who possesses or holds anything subject to the superior of another. -- Jer. Taylor.
Underpraise (v. t.) To praise below desert.
Underprize (v. t.) To undervalue; to underestimate. -- Shak.
Underproduction (n.) (Polit. Econ.) The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. -- F. A. Walker.
Underproduction (n.) Inadequate production or less than expected.
Underproof (a.) Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.
Underprop (v. t.) To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold.
Underprop the head that bears the crown. -- Fenton.
Underproportioned (a.) Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor.
Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. -- Collier.
Underpropper (n.) One who, or that which, underprops or supports.
Underpull (v. i.) To exert one's influence secretly. [Obs.] -- Ld. North.
Underpuller (n.) One who underpulls. [Obs.]
Underput (v. t.) To put or send under. [Obs.]
Underrate (v. t.) To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue. -- Burke.
Underrate (n.) A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. -- Cowley.
Underreckon (v. t.) To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. -- Bp. Hall.
Underrun (v. t.) To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
Note: The cable passes over the bows and stern of the boat used, while the men haul the boat along by pulling upon the cable. -- Totten.
To underrun a hose (Naut.), To lift it up at one end, then walk along shifting one hand after another so that the water will run out.
To underrun a tackle (Naut.), To separate its parts and put them in order.
Undersail (v. i.) To sail alongshore. [Obs.]
Undersailed (a.) Inadequately equipped with sails. [Obs.]
Undersaturated (a.) Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
Undersay (v. t.) To say by way of derogation or contradiction. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline. -- J. Tucker.
Undersecretary (n.) A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
Undersell (v. t.) To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.
Underservant (n.) An inferior servant.
Underset (v. t.) To prop or support. --Bacon.
Underset (n.) (Naut.) Undercurrent.
Undersetter (n.) One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.
Undersetting (n.) Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Undershapen (a.) Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic]
His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. -- Tennyson.
Undersheriff (n.) A sheriff's deputy.
Undersheriffry (n.) Undershrievalty. [Obs.]
Undershirt (n.) A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.
Undershoot (v. t.) To shoot short of (a mark).
Undershot (a.) (Zool.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
Undershot (a.) Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
Undershrievalty (n.) The office or position of an undersheriff.
Undershrieve (n.) (Bot.) A low shrub; a woody plant of low stature.
Undershrub (a.) Partly shrublike.
Undershut (a.) Closed from beneath.
Undershut valve (Mach.), A valve which shuts by being lifted against a seat facing downward. -- Knight.
Underside (n.) The lower or lowest side of anything. -- Paley.
Undersign (v. t.) To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument.
The undersigned, the person whose name is signed, or the persons whose names are signed, at the end of a document; the subscriber or subscribers.
Undersized (a.) Of a size less than is common.
Underskinker (n.) Undertapster. [Obs.]
Underskirt (n.) 襯裙；裙子 A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.
Underskirt (n.) Undergarment worn under a skirt [syn: {petticoat}, {half- slip}, {underskirt}].
Undersky (n.) The lower region of the sky.
Floating about the undersky. -- Tennyson.
Undersleeve (n.) A sleeve of an under-garment; a sleeve worn under another. Underslung
Undersoil (n.) The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
Undersold () p. p. of Undersell.
Undersong (n.) The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain. -- Dryden.
Undersong (n.) Accompanying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone.
In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend. -- Landor.
Undersparred (a.) (Naut.) Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.
Underspend (v. t.) To spend less than.
Undersphere (n.) A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite.
Undersphere (n.) An inferior sphere, or field of action.
Underspore (v. t.) To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. [Obs.]
Give me a staff that I may underspore. -- Chaucer.
Understair (a.) Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]
Understairs (n.) The basement or cellar.
Understood (imp. & p. p.) of Understand.
Understanded () of Understand.
Understanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand.
Understand (v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say. -- Chaucer.
I understand not what you mean by this. -- Shak.
Understood not all was but a show. -- Milton.
A tongue not understanded of the people. -- Bk. Of Com. Prayer.
Understand (v. t.) To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
Understand (v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. -- Locke.
Understand (v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved. -- Milton.
Understand (v. t.) To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] -- Shak.
To give one to understand, To cause one to know.
To make one's self understood, To make one's meaning clear.
Understand (v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see. -- Donne.
Understand (v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah. -- Neh. xiii. 7.
Understand (v.) (Understood, understood) (Know) (A1) [ I or T ] 理解；明白；懂得 To know the meaning of something that someone says.
// She explained the whole idea again, but I still didn't understand.
// Is there anyone here who understands Arabic?
// I think he was calling from a club - it was so noisy, I couldn't understand a word he said.
Understand (v.) (Understood, understood) (Know) (A2) [ I or T ] 弄懂，搞明白 To know why or how something happens or works.
// [ + question word ] We still don't fully understand how the brain works.
Understand (v.) (Understood, understood) (Know) (B1) [ I or T ] 理解；體諒 To know how someone feels or why someone behaves in a particular way.
// My wife doesn't understand me.
// Sometimes I don't understand James.
// [ + question word ] You don't understand what it's like/how it feels to have to beg on the streets.
Understand sb to mean sth （尤指錯誤地）把（某人）的意思理解爲 … To think, especially wrongly, that someone means a particular thing.
// When he said three o'clock, I understood him to mean in the afternoon.
Understand each other/ one another 彼此理解 When two people understand one another, they both know what the other means and wants and they have an agreement.
// I wanted to make sure that we want the same things, that we really understand each other.
Understand (v.) (Realize) (C1) [ T ] (Formal) 得知，獲悉，聽說 To know or realize something because you have been told it.
// [ + (that) ] I understand (that) you are interested in borrowing some money from us.
// [ + that ] The Director had given her to understand (= told her) that she would be promoted.
// [ + obj + to infinitive ] A secret buyer is understood to have paid $1 million for the three pictures (= there is unofficial news that this has happened).
Understand (v.) (Realize) [ I or T ] (Formal) （用於詢問他人是否明白自己所表達的意思並按要求去做）明白 Used when making certain that someone knows what you mean and will do as you want
// I don't want you to see that boy again. Understand?/ Do you understand?/ Is that understood?
It is understood (Formal) 眾所周知 Used to refer to something such as a rule that everyone knows and accepts.
// In the library it is understood that people should talk quietly.
Idiom: Make yourself understood
Make yourself understood (C2) 把自己的意思表達清楚 To communicate effectively.
// Since they spoke only Swahili, we used signs and gestures to make ourselves understood.
Understandable (a.) 可理解的；能懂的；可了解的 Capable of being understood; intelligible. -- Chillingworth.
Understandable (a.) Capable of being apprehended or understood [syn: apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable, understandable].
Understandable (a.) Easy to understand.
// You have to put the facts into a form that's understandable to everyone.
Understandable (a.) [B2] You say that something, for example someone's behavior, is understandable, if you feel that it is usual and not strange or difficult to understand.
// Their refusal to cooperate is perfectly/ completely understandable, considering the circumstances.
Understander (n.) One who understands, or knows by experience. [R.] -- Dryden.
Understanding (a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
Understanding (n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
Understanding (n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people. -- Clarendon.
Understanding (n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. -- Job xxxii. 8.
The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand. -- Locke.
In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension. -- Coleridge.
Understanding (n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Syn: Sense; intelligence; perception. See Sense.
Understanding (a.) Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend."
Understanding (n.) The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy].
Understanding (n.) The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" [syn: agreement, understanding].
Understanding (n.) An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" [syn: sympathy, understanding].
Understanding (n.) The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect].
Understanding (n.) A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. -- Jorrock Wormley.
Understandingly (adv.) In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. -- J. Hawes.
Understate (v. t.) To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
Understatement (n.) The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
Understock (v. t.) To supply insufficiently with stock. -- A. Smith.
Understood () imp. & p. p. of Understand.
Understrapper (n.) A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. -- Goldsmith.