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underground | underkeep |

As a proper noun underground

is (uk|rail transport) the london underground.

As a verb underkeep is

to keep under or in subjection; subdue; suppress.

As a noun underkeep is

an underground reserve.

underground

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (hidden)Hidden, furtive, secretive.
  • Of music, art, etc, outside the mainstream.

    • Synonyms

    * (below the ground) subterranean * (hidden) clandestine, hidden, hush-hush, secret * (outside the mainstream) avant-garde, unconventional

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Below the ground.
    • The tunnel goes underground at this point.
  • Secretly.

    • Synonyms

    * (below the ground) below ground * (secretly) clandestinely, in secret, on the quiet

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia underground)
  • (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.

    • 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-culture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To route electricity distribution cables underground
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1962 , year_published=1998 , publisher=Island Press , editor=Carolyn Merchant , author=David Pesonen , title=Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History , chapter=Battles Over Energy 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , publisher=Transportation Research Board , editor=Transportation Research Board Committee on Utilities , author=Don L. Ivey and C. Paul Scott , title=Utilities and Roadside Safety , chapter=Solutions , volume_plain=State of the Art Report 9 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , year_published= , publisher=CRC Press , author=Janes Northcote-Green, Robert Wilson , title=Control and Automation of Electrical Power Distribution Systems , chapter=Design, Construction and Operation of Distribution Systems, MV Networks 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 ----

    underkeep

    English

    Verb

  • To keep under or in subjection; subdue; suppress.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Like as a fire, the which in hollow caue / Hath long bene vnderkept , and downe supprest, / With murmurous disdaine doth inly raue [...]
  • *1865 , The farmer's magazine - Page 276:
    • It is not economy to overwork or underkeep , or in any wise neglect the farm horse?
  • *1967 , Rudolf Augstein, Der Spiegel: Volume 21, Issues 19-23 :
    • [...] how running himself our President underkeeps with such high animals how the british Queen in Her Majesty's own language.
  • To keep or maintain inadequately or below standard.
  • *2004 , Let's Go, Inc, Let's go: India & Nepal, 2004 - Page 191 :
    • Compared to Colva and Benaulim, Palolem 's accommodations are overpriced and underkept — expect to pay Rs200 in season for the privilege of crashing in a charmless double and using a common bathroom outside.
  • *2011 , Marie Puissant, University of Wisconsin off the record :
    • Most houses on Oakland Ave. have large basements that are underkept .

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An underground reserve.
  • *2007 , Jeffrey Overstreet, Auralia's Colors :
    • The earth was swallowing Abascar. "The Underkeeps caved in."
  • A keep or storage space located beneath the foundation of a structure; cellar.
  • *1907 , Léonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley, Lubrication and lubricants :
    • [...] located in the bottom of the driving-box cellars (underkeeps ), a perforated plate being used between the axle and the cake of grease.
  • Any storage space or reservoir placed below another object.
  • *1951 , Railway gazette international: Volume 94:
    • They have sliding underkeeps' of ample oil capacity with pad lubrication and the ' underkeeps are supplied with oil direct from a mechanical lubricator.
  • An underkeeper, guardian, or custodian.
  • *1886 , John Philip Hore, The history of Newmarket :
    • [...] rooms taken up by Mr. Newton one of his Mats Gent ushers for the placing of the Kings Mats wardrobe stuffe for the space of three weeks at Newmarkett To Robert Ford underkeep of his Mats House at Newmarkett in considracon of the want [...]