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UNDER GROUND

Definition: UNDER GROUND

UNDER GROUND

1. Below the surface of the ground.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: UNDER GROUND

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Lowness

Adverb: under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb; below par.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: UNDER GROUND

English words defined with "UNDER GROUND": Bomb chest, BurrowerDivining rod, Dwarf hemlockGround pearl, ground pine, ground rat, GroundsillHypogeousSoboles, Souterrain, Subterrane, Subterraneous, Subterranity, SuspiralTelegraph cable, To give groundWeeding chisel, wren tit. (references)
Etymologies containing "UNDER GROUND": Subterranity. (references)

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Modern Usage: UNDER GROUND

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Radiation under ground and in the sky (Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology); performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Movie/TV Titles

Under Ground (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: UNDER GROUND

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: UNDER GROUND

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The Skeleton of a large species of quadruped hitherto unknown lately discovered one hundred feet under ground near the River La Plata / drawn up by G. Cuvier. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: UNDER GROUND

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Utopias travel under ground in the passages.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

They are so much alike that you would say they must be connected under ground.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNDER GROUND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ripley under ground

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: UNDER GROUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: underground.

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-n-n-o-r-r-u-u"

-1 letter: ungrounded.

-2 letters: unrounded.

-3 letters: grounded, grounder, reground, runround, underdog, undergod, underrun, unground.

-4 letters: dendron, donnerd, drudger, dudgeon, dungeon, guerdon, nondrug, redound, rondure, rounded, rounder, underdo, undergo, unround, unurged.

-5 letters: dodger, donned, dourer, drogue, droned, droner, drudge, dunged, dunned, dunner, durned, enduro, gerund, gourde, ground, guenon, gunned, gunner, neuron, nodder, nudged, nudger, ordure, rogued, rouged, rudder.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-n-n-o-r-r-u-u"
 

+1 letter: undergrounds.

 

+2 letters: undergrounder.

 

+3 letters: undergrounders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNDER GROUND


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 44 45 52      47 52 4F 55 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052      0047 0052 004F 0055 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55483839522415249554838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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