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Definition of Under

Under Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house. Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity. Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short. Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep. Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or the like; as, a bill under discussion. In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail. Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree; subject; subordinate; -- generally in composition with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff. Related Definitions: Age, An, And, As, Asleep, Be, Behave, Being, Below, Beneath, Betrayed, Boy, Bring, Bill, Carriage, Cellar, Chastity, Chiefly, Christian, Composition, Condition, Control, Cover, Covered, Degree, Denoting, Discussion, Down, Extreme, Fail, Falling, Few, Figure, Fortitude, Friendship, Generally, Go, Guise, Have, He, Heavy, Him, House, Hyphen, Idea, Idiomatic, In, Inferiority, Injuries, Intensity, Is, Keep, Law, Less, Liability, Life, Like, Live, Load, Lower, Morpheus, Necessity, Noun, Number, Obeying, Obligation, Of, Office, One, Opposed, Oppression, Or, Over, Pain, Pains, Patience, Penalties, Person, Place, Position, Pretense, Pretext, Rank, Reduce, Regard, Relation, Short, Size, Some, Something, Specifically, Stood, Subdue, Subject, Subjection, Subordinate, Subordination, Superior, Than, That, The, Thing, To, Travel, Treatment, Tree, Under, Under-Garment, Undercurrent, Underdose, Undergoing, Underofficer, Undersheriff, Undertone, Unsuccessful, Upon, Used, Weight, Which, Whole, With, Without, Written

Under Quotations But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Ronald Reagan I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

Under Translations under in Afrikaans is onder under in Danish is under under in Dutch is beneden under in Finnish is alla under in German is unter, unten, hinunter, darunter under in Hungarian is alatt under in Latin is inferus, sub under in Norwegian is under under in Portuguese is sob under in Spanish is so, debajo de under in Swedish is under

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