Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 12
Understrapping (a.) Becoming an understrapper; subservient. [R.] -- Sterne.
Understrata (n. pl. ) of Understratum.
Understratums (n. pl. ) of Understratum.
Understratum (n.) The layer, or stratum, of earth on which the mold, or soil, rests; subsoil.
Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore. -- Swift.
Understudy (v. t. & i.) (Theater) To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
Understudy (n.) One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency.
Understudy (n.) An actor able to replace a regular performer when required [syn: understudy, standby].
Understudy (v.) Be an understudy or alternate for a role [syn: understudy, alternate].
Undersuit (n.) A suit worn under another suit; a suit of underclothes.
Undertakable (a.) Capable of being undertaken; practicable.
Undertook (imp.) of Undertake.
Undertaken (p. p.) of Undertake.
Undertaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Undertake.
Undertake (v. t.) 試圖；著手做；進行，從事；承擔，接受；同意；答應；保證 [Y] [+to-v] [+（that）] To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. -- Milton.
Undertake (v. t.) Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. -- Shak.
Undertake (v. t.) Hence, to guarantee; to promise; to affirm.
And he was not right fat, I undertake. -- Dryden.
And those two counties I will undertake Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy. -- Shak.
I dare undertake they will not lose their labor. -- Woodward.
Undertake (v. t.) To assume, as a character. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Undertake (v. t.) To engage with; to attack. [Obs.]
It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offense to. -- Shak.
Undertake (v. t.) To have knowledge of; to hear. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Undertake (v. t.) To take or have the charge of. [Obs.] "Who undertakes you to your end." -- Shak.
Keep well those that ye undertake. -- Chaucer.
Undertake (v. i.) 承擔;擔保;保證;承辦葬事...To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. -- Isa. xxxviii. 14.
Undertake (v. i.) To venture; to hazard. [Obs.]
It is the cowish terror of his spirit That dare not undertake. -- Shak.
Undertake (v. i.) To give a promise or guarantee; to be surety.
But on mine honor dare I undertake For good lord Titus' innocence in all. -- Shak.
Undertake (v.) Enter upon an activity or enterprise [syn: {undertake}, {set about}, {attempt}].
Undertake (v.) Accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task" [syn: {undertake}, {tackle}, {take on}].
Undertake (v.) Promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners" [syn: {undertake}, {guarantee}].
Undertake (v.) Enter into a contractual arrangement [syn: {contract}, {undertake}].
Undertake (v.) Accept as a charge [syn: {undertake}, {take in charge}].
Undertaker (n.) 承擔者，承辦人；承辦喪葬者，殯儀業者 One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. -- Beau. & Fl.
Undertaker (n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. -- Evelyn.
In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. -- South.
Undertaker (n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.
Undertaker (n.) One whose business is the management of funerals [syn: mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director].
Undertaking (n.) The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. -- Hakluyt.
Undertaking (n.) That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
Undertaking (n.) Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
Undertaking (n.) A promise or pledge; a guarantee. -- A. Trollope.
Undertaking (n.) Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings" [syn: undertaking, project, task, labor].
Undertaking (n.) The trade of a funeral director.
Undertaking, () contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract to the other, and not the mutual engagement of the parties to each other; a promise. 5 East, R. 17; 2 Leon. 224, 5; 4 B, & A. 595.
Undertapster (n.) Assistant to a tapster.
Undertaxed (a.) Taxed too little, or at a lower rate than others.
Undertenancy (n.) Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.
Undertenant (n.) The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
Underthing (n.) Something that is inferior and of little worth. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl. Undertide
Undertide (n.) Alt. of Undertime.
Undertime (n.) The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening. [Obs.]
He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw. -- Spenser.
Undertide (n.) A current below the surface of a fluid [syn: undertide, undercurrent].
Undertone (n.) A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.
Undertone (n.) A quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones."
Undertone (n.) A subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent].
Undertone (n.) A pale or subdued color [syn: undertone, tinge].
Undertook () imp. of Undertake.
Undertow (n.) (Naut.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
Undertow (n.) An inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling; "his account had a poignant undertow of regret."
Undertow (n.) The seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore [syn: undertow, sea puss, sea-puss, sea purse, sea-purse, sea-poose].
Undertreasurer (n.) An assistant treasurer.
Underturn (v. t.) To turn upside down; to subvert; to upset. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Undervaluation (n.) The act of undervaluing; a rate or value not equal to the real worth.
Undervaluation (n.) Too low a value or price assigned to something
Undervalue (v. t.) To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
Undervalue (v. t.) To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise.
In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. -- Atterbury.
I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry. -- Dryden.
Undervalue (n.) A low rate or price; a price less than the real worth; undervaluation. -- Milton.
Undervalue (v.) Assign too low a value to; "Don't underestimate the value
of this heirloom-you may sell it at a good price" [syn: undervalue, underestimate] [ant: overestimate, overvalue].
Undervalue (v.) Esteem lightly.
Undervalue (v.) Lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again" [syn: depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue] [ant: appreciate, apprise, apprize, revalue].
Undervaluer (n.) One who undervalues.
Underverse (n.) The lower or second verse. [Obs.]
Compare: Undershirt
Undershirt (n.) A shirt worn next the skin, under another shirt; -- called also undervest.
Undervest (n.) An undershirt.
Underviewer (n.) See Underlooker.
Underlooker (n.) (Mining) A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
Underwear (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
Underwear (n.) Undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments [syn: underwear, underclothes, underclothing].
Underwear (n.) [ U ] (B1) 內衣 Clothes worn next to the skin, under other clothes.
Underween (v. t.) To undervalue. [Obs.]
Underwent () imp. of Undergo.
Underwing (n.) One of the posterior wings of an insect.
Underwing (n.) Any one of numerous species of noctuid moths belonging to Catocala and allied genera, in which the hind wings are banded with red and black or other conspicuous colors. Many of the species are called red underwing.
Underwitted (a.) Weak in intellect; half-witted; silly.
Underwood (n.) Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.
Underworked (imp. & p. p.) of Underwork.
Underwrought () of Underwork.
Underworking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Underwork.
Underwork (v. t.) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
Underwork (v. t.) To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting.
Underwork (v. t.) To do like work at a less price than; as, one mason may underwork another.
Underwork (v. i.) To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
Underwork (v. i.) To do less work than is proper or suitable.
Underwork (v. i.) To do work for a less price than current rates.
Underwork (n.) Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.
Underworker (n.) One who underworks.
Underworker (n.) An inferior or subordinate workman.
Underworld (n.) The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
Underworld (n.) The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
Underworld (n.) The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
Underworld (n.) The inferior part of mankind.
Underwrote (imp.) of Underwrite.
Underwrit () of Underwrite.
Underwritten (p. p.) of Underwrite.
Underwrit () of Underwrite.
Underwriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Underwrite.
Underwrite (v. t.) （在……之下）簽署；寫在……下面（或末尾）；給……保險 To write under something else; to subscribe.
What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten. -- Bp. Sanderson.
Underwrite (v. t.) To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of insurance. -- B. Jonson.
The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony. -- Marshall.
Underwrite (v. i.) 經營保險業 To practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like.
Underwrite (v.) Guarantee financial support of; "The opera tour was subvented by a bank" [syn: {underwrite}, {subvention}, {subvent}].
Underwrite (v.) Protect by insurance; "The insurance won't cover this" [syn: {cover}, {insure}, {underwrite}].
Underwriter (n.) 擔保人；保險商；（證券等）認購者 One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
Underwriter (n.) A banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities [syn: {investment banker}, {underwriter}].
Underwriter (n.) An agent who sells insurance [syn: {insurance broker}, {insurance agent}, {general agent}, {underwriter}].
Underwriter (n.) A financial institution that sells insurance [syn: {insurance company}, {insurance firm}, {insurer}, {insurance underwriter}, {underwriter}].
Underwriter (n.), Insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he becomes an insurer.
Underwriter (n.) By this act he places himself as to his responsibility, in the place of the insured. He may cause a re-insurance (q.v.) to be made for his benefit; and it is his duty to act with good faith, and, without quibbling, to pay all just demands against him for losses. Marsh. Ins. 45,
Underwriting (n.) The business of an underwriter,
Underyoke (v. t.) To subject to the yoke; to make subject.
Undeserve (v. t.) To fail to deserve.
Undeserver (n.) One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy.
Undesigning (a.) Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.
Undesirable See {desirable}.
Undesirable (a.) 令人不快的，不受歡迎的；討厭的 Not wanted; "undesirable impurities in steel"; "legislation excluding undesirable aliens";"removed the unwanted vegetation" [syn: {undesirable}, {unwanted}] [ant: {desirable}].
Undesirable (a.) Not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse) [syn: {undesirable}, {unsuitable}].
Undesirable (n.) 不受歡迎的人（或事物）；不良分子 [C] One whose presence is undesirable; "rounding up vagrants and drunks and other undesirables."
Undesirable (a.) Not wanted or desirable because harmful, objectionable, or unpleasant.
‘The drug's undesirable side effects.’
Undesirable (n.) A person considered to be objectionable in some way.
‘How could she go around with such undesirables?’
Undestroyable (a.) Indestructible.
Undeterminable (a.) Not determinable; indeterminable.
Undeterminate (a.) Nor determinate; not settled or certain; indeterminate.
Undetermination (n.) Indetermination.
Undevil (v. t.) To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.
Undevotion (n.) Absence or want of devotion.
Undid () imp. of Undo.
Undifferentiated (a.) Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.
Undigenous (a.) Generated by water.
Undigestible (a.) Indigestible.
Undight (v. t.) To put off; to lay aside, as a garment.
Undigne (a.) Unworthy.
Undignified (a.) 不莊重的；無威嚴的 Lacking dignity [ant: dignified].
Undimmed (a.) 不暗淡的；不模糊的；清楚的；明亮的 Not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed" [syn: {undimmed}, {bright}] [ant: {dim}, {dimmed}]
Undine (n.) One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Undiocesed (a.) Unprovided with a diocese; having no diocese.