Undertow vs Undefined - What's the difference?
undertow | undefined |
To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.
* 1914 , Denton Jaques Snider, Lincoln at Richmond :
To pull down by, or as by, an undertow.
* 1998 , Richard Gough, David Williams, Ric Allsopp, Performance Research: On Place :
* 2003 , Michael T. Leibig, Mike Leibig Traveling in Disguise :
To flow or behave as an undertow.
* 1917 , The Unpopular review:
A short-range flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore.
(by extension) A feeling that runs contrary to one's normal one.
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a verb undertow
is to pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.As a noun undertow
is a short-range flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.undertow
English
Verb
(en verb)- Off in a gallop the General wheeled vanishing, And sped his steed away into the blue, When Lineoln now alone let go his speech Which had before been undertowed by force, [...]
- A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory.
- I sink because I cannot swim, undertowed to the Centre, abandoning all remembrance of the surface toward the cloud of unknowing, without choice I'm pulled.
- Everybody knows this and acts accordingly; but when you say it, it sounds bad and bold, and makes you uncomfortable to hear it, because the puritan blood is still undertowing in your veins.
Noun
(en noun)- A strong undertow may sweep a returning swimmer off their feet but it does not carry them far from the shore.
See also
* rip currentundefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .