Underground vs Subsurface - What's the difference?
underground | subsurface |
(label) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
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, title= (hidden)Hidden, furtive, secretive.
Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.
(chiefly, British) An underground railway.
A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
To route electricity distribution cables underground
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Something that is below the layer that is on the surface.
(countable, mathematics) A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.
below the surface
As adjectives the difference between underground and subsurface
is that underground is below the ground; below the surface of the Earth while subsurface is below the surface.As nouns the difference between underground and subsurface
is that underground is an underground railway while subsurface is something that is below the layer that is on the surface.As an adverb underground
is below the ground.As a verb underground
is to route electricity distribution cables underground.As a proper noun Underground
is the London Underground.underground
English
Adjective
(en adjective)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Synonyms
* (below the ground) subterranean * (hidden) clandestine, hidden, hush-hush, secret * (outside the mainstream) avant-garde, unconventionalSynonyms
* (below the ground) below ground * (secretly) clandestinely, in secret, on the quietNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia underground)Synonyms
* (underground railway) metro, (the underground railway of Paris), subway (US), Tube (British - the underground railway of London) * (movement or organisation of people who resist political convention) resistance * (movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention) avant-garde, counter-cultureVerb
(en verb)citation, isbn=9781559635806 , page=325 , passage=One is to underground where no other alternative will work, and this method should be used universally in urban regions as it now is in “downtown” sections.}}
citation, isbn=9780309094511 , page=9 , passage=Also, undergrounding' may not eliminate the potential for crashes with other roadside objects, such as trees, walls, buildings, and so forth. [...] When looking at the fesibility of ' undergrounding utilities, the complete roadside area and nearby adjacent properties should be evaluated for potential roadside obstructions or hazards.}}
citation, isbn=9780824726317 , page=110 , passage=The utility now wants the network to be undergrounded in the urban areas, which would mean substations with 33 kV distribution swtichgear.}}
See also
* underground railway * go underground ----subsurface
English
Noun
(en noun)- Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and supoort it.
Adjective
(-)- variations in subsurface conditions