Under vs Sunder - What's the difference?
under | sunder |
In or at a lower level than.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
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, title= As a subject of; subordinate to.
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Less than.
Below the surface of.
(figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
As, in the character of.
* 2013 , The Huffington Post, JK Rowling Pseudonym: Robert Galbraith's 'The Cuckoo's Calling' Is Actually By Harry Potter Author [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/13/jk-rowling-pseudonym-robert-galbraith_n_3592769.html]
In a way lower or less than.
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In a way inferior to.
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In an unconscious state.
Being lower; being beneath something.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians ix. 27
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To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
As prepositions the difference between under and sunder
is that under is under while sunder is without.under
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.
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High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
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- 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.
- J.K. Rowling has written a crime novel called 'The Cuckoo's Calling' under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Synonyms
* below * beneath * underneathAntonyms
* above * overAdverb
(-)- It took the hypnotist several minutes to make his subject go under .
Synonyms
* below * beneathAntonyms
* above * overAdjective
(en adjective)- I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.
- The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain / Could not bring his proud soul under .
Derived terms
* down under * six feet under * underachieve * underage * underarm * undercurrent * undercut * underground * underhanded * underneath * underrate * underreport * under the weather * undertow * underwater * underworld : See also:References
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "The vertical axis", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Statistics
*sunder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
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- (Halliwell)
Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.