Underground vs X - What's the difference?
underground | x |
(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
* {{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
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, 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
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, publisher=CRC Press
, author=Janes Northcote-Green, Robert Wilson
, title=Control and Automation of Electrical Power Distribution Systems
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The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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Roman numerals
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As a proper noun underground
is (uk|rail transport) the london underground.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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.}}