Underset vs Undersee - What's the difference?
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To set under or beneath.
*1963 , George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop :
To prop or support.
*1887 , Arthur Robert Sawyer, Accidents in mines in the North Staffordshire coalfield arising from falls of roof and sides :
To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
*1938 , Saturday review of literature: Volume 18:
To look intently into; examine; inspect.
*1978 , Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia :
To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.
*2002 , Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me :
*2010 , Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion :
*2011 , Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One :
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
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* (l)Verb
- 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 [...]
- (Francis Bacon)
- 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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*undersee
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Verb
- 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.
- 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.
- But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw , the niggling details of their mass production.
- Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee ) the execution of his dirty work.
- 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 [...]
