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UNDERDO

Definition: UNDERDO

UNDERDO

Intransitive verb

1. To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo.

Transitive verb

1. To do less thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNDERDO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: UNDERDO

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

underdo

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

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Modern Translation: UNDERDO

Language Translations for "UNDERDO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tiganis jo deri në fund, pjek jo deri në fund. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

недоопичам, правя недостатъчно. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nedodìlat. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نیم پزکردن (Coddle), قصورکردن , ازکارکم گذاردن . (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

angolosan süt meg. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erdounday

   

Romanian

  

nu frige suficient, nu coace suficient, face ceva doar pe jumãtate, executa ceva doar pe jumãtate. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недожаривать, недоделывать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raditi manje nego što se može. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yetersiz yapmak (unfit), gerekeni yapmamak, baştansavma yapmak, az pişirmek (undercook). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNDERDO

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNDERDO": underdoes, underdog, underdogs, underdoing, underdone. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNDERDO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: redound, rounded.

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

-1 letter: droned, durned, enduro, nodder, undoer.

-2 letters: drone, dured, nuder, odder, redon, rouen, round, udder, under, uredo.

-3 letters: doer, done, dore, dour, dude, dune, dure, durn, duro, eddo, euro, nerd, node, nude, nurd, redd, redo, rend, rode, roue, rudd, rude, rued, rune, unde, undo.

-4 letters: den, doe, don, dor, dud, due, dun, duo, end, eon.

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

+1 letter: grounded, redounds, underdog, undergod.

 

+2 letters: adjourned, coendured, deerhound, foundered, guerdoned, outridden, rebounded, redounded, refounded, resounded, unadorned, uncrowded, underbody, underdoes, underdogs, underdone, undergods, undersold, underwood, unordered, unrounded, untrodden.

 

+3 letters: deerhounds, enshrouded, floundered, introduced, overfunded, propounded, redounding, squadroned, surrounded, undeformed, underdoing, understood, underwoods, underworld, undoctored, ungrounded, unproduced, unrecorded, unsoldered.

 

+4 letters: dreadnought, dumbfounder, endeavoured, endocardium, hundredfold, outstridden, roundedness, roundheaded, undecorated, underbodies, undercooled, underground, underscored, underworlds, undistorted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNDERDO


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

55 4E 44 45 52 44 4F

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    .    .-.    -..    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0044 0045 0052 0044 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

55483839523849

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Non-English Dictionaries with "UNDERDO"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albán, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, Arnavut

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgaristan ile ilgili

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, macarca, macar

Romanian

translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire, dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, román, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski

Russian

трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение, словарь, определениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, Rusça

Serbo-Croatian

tumačenje, leksikon, rečnik, definicijasârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Turkish

tercüme, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlamaturk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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