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Under   /ˈəndər/   Listen
Under

adverb
1.
Down to defeat, death, or ruin.
2.
Through a range downward.
3.
Into unconsciousness.
4.
In or into a state of subordination or subjugation.
5.
Below some quantity or limit.
6.
Below the horizon.
7.
Down below.
8.
Further down.  Synonym: below.
adjective
1.
Located below or beneath something else.  Synonym: nether.  "The under parts of a machine"
2.
Lower in rank, power, or authority.



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"Under" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Issus—resolved to desert Persia, to detach themselves wholly from Tyre, and to place their navy at the disposal of the Macedonians.[14391] The number of their triremes amounted to 120; and Alexander, having now under his command a fleet of 224 sail, could no longer feel any doubt of being able to wrest the supremacy at sea from ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
... that morning, and she wore green. She always wore green when the Muse was upon her: a pleasing habit which, whether as a warning or an inspiration, modern poets might do well to imitate. She carried an enormous diary under her arm; and in her mind several alternative ways of putting down her reflections on her ...
— Once on a Time • A. A. Milne
... footpaths of the thoughtless, An Orphic priest and bard, I bring to light again a hymn Of a thrice-ancient cult. For until now my thought flowed on, A river under earth. Amidst men's tumult my lyre's rhythm, A sudden wonder rose. At night I start, at night I climb The mountain difficult; I wish alone and first to greet Light Apollonian While among mortal men below Darkness ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas
... the visible universe from those with which our fathers looked upon it! Evolution makes the universe alive. In its light we see that mysterious potency of matter itself, that something in the clod under foot that justifies Emerson's audacious line of the "worm striving to be man." We are no longer the adopted children of the earth, but her own real offspring. Evolution puts astronomy and geology in our blood and authenticates us and gives us the backing of the whole solar ...
— Time and Change • John Burroughs
... fifteenth century was in a highly prosperous condition. The great commercial cities had a profitable commerce with all parts of the then known world, and great public works had been under way for more than two centuries. The beginning of the Renaissance was marked by the great cathedrals, of which St. Mark's at Venice was a little earlier than Pisa, Siena, Florence and Milan. All these were built before 1300. Vast public works were undertaken in all parts ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews


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