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Underset vs Undersee - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between underset and undersee

is that underset is to set under or beneath while undersee is to neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.

As verbs the difference between underset and undersee

is that underset is to set under or beneath while undersee is to see or look under or below; see below the surface of.

As a noun underset

is undercurrent.

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English

Alternative forms

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Verb

  • To set under or beneath.
  • *1963 , George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop :
  • How it was shaped up with proper foreway and under-set for dished wheels, or how iron "clouts" (with "clout-nails") were carefully fitted into it to take the wear — is all but gone from my memory, as indeed it was hardly worth storing [...]
  • To prop or support.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • *1887 , Arthur Robert Sawyer, Accidents in mines in the North Staffordshire coalfield arising from falls of roof and sides :
  • Unless posts are underset' in very steep mines they are apt to fall out before the pressure of the roof has tightened them. Posts are sometimes too much ' underset , owing to their being too long.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • undercurrent
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    undersee

    English

    Verb

  • To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
  • *1938 , Saturday review of literature: Volume 18:
  • Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: "You have to undersee' the shine." Ken has a remarkable ability to "' undersee the shine." He is not deceived by surfaces.
  • To look intently into; examine; inspect.
  • *1978 , Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia :
  • At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles "underseeing " civilian ministers.
  • To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.
  • *2002 , Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me :
  • But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw , the niggling details of their mass production.
  • *2010 , Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion :
  • Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee ) the execution of his dirty work.
  • *2011 , Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One :
  • Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee ” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]