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Underset vs Undernet - What's the difference?

underset | undernet |

As nouns the difference between underset and undernet

is that underset is undercurrent while undernet is the criminal underworld in cyberspace.

As a verb underset

is to set under or beneath.

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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.

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    (en noun)
  • undercurrent

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    undernet

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The criminal underworld in cyberspace.

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    '"Bots are at the center of the undernet economy," says Jeremy Linden, until recently a researcher at Arbor Networks, which tracks and defends against botnets. "Almost every major crime problem on the Net can be traced to them."- -- Quoted in Scott Berinato: "Attack of the Bots": Wired , Issue 14.11 - November 2006: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/botnet.html

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