Underway vs Pending - What's the difference?
underway | pending |
a road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle
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, author=Donovan L. Hofsommer
, title=Minneapolis and the Age of Railways
, chapter=Adrift
an underground passage, tunnel
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, author=Alan Goldfein
, title=Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe"
, chapter=A Wonderful Drive
a voyage, especially underwater
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, editor=
, author=Alfred Scott McLaren, William R. Anderson
, title=Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
, chapter=To Severnaya Zemlya and the Beginning of the Shelf Survey
(computer science) subroutine
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, year=2003
, year_published=
, edition=
, editor=Marvin Zelkowitz
, author=
, title=Advances in Computers: Information Repositories
, chapter=Chapter 5 Are Scripting Languages Any Good?
, url=
, genre=
, publisher=Academic Press
, isbn=9780120121571
, page=226
, passage=However, the class of programs represented by the phonecode task is rather large and common, especially in an area for which script languages are often used, namely transcribing text files from one format into another, perhaps including some semantic processing underways .
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in motion, in progress; being done or carried out
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, title=Offshore Outsourcing’s Next Wave: How High?
, site=NY Times
awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation
begun but not completed
about to happen; imminent or impending
As a noun underway
is a road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle.As an adverb underway
is in motion, in progress; being done or carried out.As a verb pending is
.As an adjective pending is
awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation.As a preposition pending is
while waiting for something; until.underway
English
Alternative forms
* under way * under weigh * underweighNoun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=Univ. of Minnesota Press , isbn=9780816645015 , page=152 , passage=As Minneapolis grew, the city demanded that M&StL construct "underways " beneath city roadways. }}
citation, genre= , publisher=American Editions , isbn=9783000143571 , page=46 , passage=There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ... }}
citation, genre= , publisher=Univ. of Alabama Press , isbn=9780817316020 , page=179 , passage=I had been the diving officer on three previous submarines, … , and was an experienced officer of the deck with many underways and landings under my belt on all three.}}
Adverb
(en adverb)citation, archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-22 , passage=The next wave, well underway , is shipping back-office business tasks overseas, ... }}