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Definition: Underway |
UnderwayAdjective1. Currently in progress; "there is mischief afoot"; "plans are afoot"; "preparations for the trial are underway". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "underway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Generally means that the ship is making way through the water. Technically is applied to a ship that is not attached. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: UnderwaySynonym: afoot(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set to; make a beginning, make a start. |
Journey | Embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Underway |
| Specialty definitions using "underway": CADET, DECK ♦ diversion tube ♦ kedge anchor ♦ NESL ♦ SAILOR, PLEASURE CRAFT, ship observations, SIMULA, stream anchor. (references) |
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Screenplays | Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk ice cream. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Lyrics | Whatever it is, the party's underway (This Is How We Do It; performing artist: Montell Jordan) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Underway and resting enroute Off of EXPLORER Photo sheet No. 2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Hydrographic survey launch underway Boat off of PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Hammerhead shark passing bow of ALBATROSS IV while ship underway Apparently a hammerhead migration as ship saw hundreds of hammerheads swimming to northeast during the day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Fishing vessel underway in Kodiak Harbor. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Trawler underway in Kodiak Harbor. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Restoration work underway. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The restoration project underway. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Beaver submersible and support ship underway. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship TOWNSEND CROMWELL underway. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship DELAWARE II underway. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Several long-term studies are underway. (references) | |
A current trial with interferon beta 1a is underway. (references) | ||
Separate studies are underway to examine this question. (references) | ||
Business | This liberalization is underway, albeit slowly. (references) | |
It has four projects underway and two more in the pipeline. (references) | ||
Preliminary discussions are underway to establish a regulator. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | An interfaith effort was underway during the year to promote revision of the law in order for religious organizations to obtain duty-free status. (references) |
Syria | Internet access and access to e-mail is limited but growing, with efforts underway to provide greater Internet access, especially to universities and businesses. (references) | |
Colombia | In areas where counterinsurgency operations were underway, police or military officials occasionally required civilians to obtain safe-conduct passes; paramilitary forces and guerrillas often used similar means to restrict travel in areas under their control. (references) | |
Economic History | Bulgaria | Such efforts are slowly underway. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Selection of contractors is underway. (references) | |
Russia | Several of these projects are underway. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | A police investigation was underway but no arrests had been made in connection with the case by year's end. (references) |
Argentina | Responsibility for the deaths in Salta had not been established, although an investigation was underway at year's end. (references) | |
Mexico | There were 23 cases still active in the courts, 8 investigations still underway, and outstanding warrants for 29 others. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHILE | Similar discussions are also underway with South Korea and Singapore. (references) |
CZECH REPUBLIC | Training efforts are underway to correct the situation and address these concerns. (references) | |
Mali | Female genital mutilation (FGM) is widespread, although educational campaigns against FGM are underway. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | Implementation is still underway. (references) |
Tanzania | Arrangements are underway to harmonize these tariffs. (references) | |
Chile | Free trade negotiations are underway with United States, Peru, South Korea, and the European Union. (references) | |
Travel | Uk | Repairs are underway and the overall safety record is otherwise good. (references) |
Chad | Chad's interior road system is also quite poor, but several road projects are planned or already underway. (references) | |
Chad | Electricity is expensive and unreliable, posing a serious handicap for commercial development, but improvements are underway as the energy sector is being privatized. (references) | |
Women | Greece | In June 2000, the Secretariat began operating a 24-hour emergency telephone hot line for abused women; a campaign to publicize the service was underway. (references) |
Mongolia | The large economic and societal changes underway have created new stresses on families, including loss of jobs, inflation, and lowered spending on social and educational programs. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | In 1999 the Ministry of Interior announced that preparations were underway to issue identity cards to women, which would represent a step toward allowing women to establish independent legal identities from men. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Colombia | The Government also has obtained commitments from the country's leading trade associations and unions to implement child labor eradication programs, some of which were underway at year's end. (references) |
Croatia | During the year, labor unions protested the Government's drafting of a new labor law without input from labor organizations; a new drafting process was underway at year's end to include union participation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Programs are underway which will assure we can deter war in the years ahead. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Joint research and development with our allies is underway in solar energy, nuclear power, industrial conservation and other areas. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | A world economic recovery is underway. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Underway" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Underway" is used about 587 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 587 | 10,802 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "underway": get underway ♦ underway replenishment ♦ underway replenishment force. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gray haze underway | 12 |
model underway warship | 8 |
grey haze underway | 6 |
cub game gets long underway until | 3 |
dudes free in shorts their underway | 3 |
hazegray underway | 3 |
replenishment underway | 3 |
underway | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "underway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 進行 (in progress, to advance, to carry on, to carry out, to conduct, to do, to execute), 进行中. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | undervejs (en route). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | varend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | درحرکت (Afloat, Agog, Astir), درشرف وقوع , دردست اقدام . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kulussa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | en route (under way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | in Fahrt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εν κινήσει (actuated), εν πλω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | menet közben (on the march), úton (en route, in transit, on the way, to be under way, to hack along the road, to waylay, under sail, under way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | in navigazione (under way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 'に就く (to be started, to get underway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょにつく (to be started, to get underway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erwayunday em marcha (agoing, marching, on), a navegar, a caminho (en route, on course, on the way). (various references) идти своим чередом (be well underway). (various references) u toku (abreast, afoot, during, on-going, progress: in progress, way: under way). (various references) en marcha (a-going, ongoing, right away, under way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Underway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ndegwa, Nudderwar, unnderway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r-u-w-y" | |
-1 letter: unready, unweary. | |
-2 letters: denary, runway, unawed, undraw, undrew, unread, unwary, wander, warden, warned, yarned, yawned, yawner. | |
-3 letters: awned, dawen, deary, denar, deray, dewan, dewar, drawn, nerdy, nuder, randy, rayed, ready, redan, rewan, unary, under, unwed, wader, waned, waney, wared, weary, yawed, yearn. | |
-4 letters: aery, anew, awed, awny, awry, dare, darn, dawn, dean, dear, deny. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r-u-w-y" | |
+3 letters: unweariedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 77 61 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. .--. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0077 0061 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580707184896791 |
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