Neglect vs Undersee - What's the difference?
neglect | undersee |
(label) To fail to care for or attend to something.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
(label) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The act of neglecting.
The state of being neglected.
Habitual lack of care.
To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
*1938 , Saturday review of literature: Volume 18:
To look intently into; examine; inspect.
*1978 , Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia :
To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.
*2002 , Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me :
*2010 , Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion :
*2011 , Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One :
In transitive terms the difference between neglect and undersee
is that neglect is to fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness while undersee is to neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.As a noun neglect
is the act of neglecting.neglect
English
Verb
(en verb)- I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.
- This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Derived terms
* benign neglect * neglectful * neglectfully * neglectfulnessNoun
Synonyms
* carelessness * negligenceundersee
English
Verb
- Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: "You have to undersee' the shine." Ken has a remarkable ability to "' undersee the shine." He is not deceived by surfaces.
- At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles "underseeing " civilian ministers.
- But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw , the niggling details of their mass production.
- Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee ) the execution of his dirty work.
- Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee ” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]