underside
English
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Noun
underside (plural undersides)
- The side that is below or underneath, the bottom.
- 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Tank Engine Stability”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:
- A correspondent suggested that the superior riding qualities of the latter were due to the absence of piston-valve chests above the cylinders, which made it possible to bring the underside of the water-tanks to a lower level than that of the "Rivers", so minimising the unsteadying effect of water surging in the tanks.
- 1963 March, “The Clacton express electric multiple-units enter service”, in Modern Railways, page 173:
- [...] and the neat reading lamps on the underside of the luggage racks, under passenger control, are an attractive feature of the first class compartments.
- 2016 January 23, Michael Emons, “Crystal Palace 1–3 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 17 September 2018:
- The Eagles then hit the woodwork twice in a matter of seconds as Scott Dann headed Jason Puncheon's free-kick against the underside of the bar, before substitute Mile Jedinak also hit the crossbar with a shot on the turn.
- 2021 July 2, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Alta Spells, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, “Firm held off on repairs because of stability issues in months before Surfside building collapse”, in CNN[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 22 November 2021:
- Among other work done, according to the letter: CPR replaced the bottom of a deteriorating stair column base with hollow steel structural sections; conducted exploratory demolition on the underside of an eave that required “removal and reconstruction”; and removed all loose “cracked, spalled, deteriorated, and delaminated concrete” and damaged stucco from the underside of balcony eaves on 114 of the building’s 136 units, the letter said.
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side that is underneath
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
underside f or m (definite singular undersida or undersiden, indefinite plural undersider, definite plural undersidene)
Antonyms
References
- “underside” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
underside f (definite singular undersida, indefinite plural undersider, definite plural undersidene)
Antonyms
References
- “underside” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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