under
IPA: ˈʌndɝ
noun
- The amount by which an actual total is less than the expected or required amount.
adjective
- Lower; beneath something.
- In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
- (medicine, colloquial) Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- (informal) Insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
- Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
adverb
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- So as to pass beneath something.
- (usually in compounds) Insufficiently.
- (informal) In or into an unconscious state.
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Examples of "under" in Sentences
- Eve, _in_ the middle of a Ring, and under -- right _under_ one of my oldest hills in Old England?
- But directly under the mountain there was no wind, and their position was as that of a person who is _under_ the curve of a waterfall.
- B. conjectures under hrōf genam; but Ha., p. 45, shows this to be unnecessary, under also meaning _in_, as _in_ (or _under_) these circumstances. l.
- B. conjectures under hrôf genam; but Ha., p. 45, shows this to be unnecessary, under also meaning _in_, as _in_ (or _under_) these circumstances. l.
- So that is the reason why I look under my bed every night, to see if anybody is hid away there; because the very idea of having a man _under_ a body's bed, is so awful!
- General Rules made by His Excellency the Governor, acting under the advice of the Executive Council for the Government of Prisons, for the guidance of the prison officers, _under and by authority of
- Now when Mate fled to his own place, this great fool Tangaro noticed the path, but forgot which it was, and pointed it out to men under the impression that it was the road to the _upper_, not to the _under_, world.
- [733] Unfortunately the class 50 acres and under at this time included holdings _under_ one acre, so that it is useless for the comparison of the number of small holdings at the two dates, for in 1907 none appear under one acre.
- The provost, desiring to guard them from the danger of infection, published an order that all persons of both sexes, suffering under certain specified maladies, should quit the capital in twenty-four hours, _under the penalty of being thrown into the river_!
- -- The reservatory clause proposed in our Memorial is what is usual in royal grants; and in the present case, the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council, we hope, will be of opinion, it is quite sufficient, more especially as we are able to prove to their Lordships, that there are no "possessions," within the boundaries of the lands under consideration, which are held "_under legal titles_."
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