Undermining vs Underpinning - What's the difference?
undermining | underpinning |
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The act or process by which something is undermined.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 23, author=The New York Times, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times
, passage=The piece, titled You , calls up many references from the past and the present: from Michael Heizer's earthworks to Chris Burden's institutional underminings to Monica Bonvicini's simulations of the same. }}
A support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall or a metaphorical basis for something.
Legs, more generally.
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As verbs the difference between undermining and underpinning
is that undermining is while underpinning is .As nouns the difference between undermining and underpinning
is that undermining is the act or process by which something is undermined while underpinning is a support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall or a metaphorical basis for something.undermining
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Verb
(head)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Noun
(en noun)citation
underpinning
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(head)Noun
(wikipedia underpinning) (en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning .”}}