Underside

Definition: Underside

Underside

Noun

1. The lower side of anything.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "underside" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Synonyms: Underside

Crosswords: Underside

There's an underside to you (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt)

Demonstrating the Action of the Chicago Pneumatic Shell Riveters on the Underside of the Hull of a Steel Vessel. Taken for the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. (1900)

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Books

• Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.a (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (reference)

• Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America's National Pastime (reference)

• Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside (reference)

• Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (reference)

• The Underside of American History: To 1877 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Underside (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Scanning Electron Micrograph of the underside of anunwashed basil leaf. Credit: CDC.

NOAA P-3 in flight showing underside. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Parupeneus multifasciatus - a red goatfish. Orange bryozoan colonizing underside of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Underside of starfish showing tube feet. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

View of the ship's wake from the after end of the boat stowage deck, while making nearly 35 knots on speed trials in November 1937. Note underside of the flight deck above, heavy supporting brace between the main and flight decks, and safety netting around the flight deck edges. Credit: NAVY.

Underside view of the Wright brothers' reconstructed 1903 motor. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

A big owl shrieked as it went overhead, and the firelight showed its white underside and the spread of its wings

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Topside, its fur ranges from pale brown to reddish brown, while its underside and feet are white. (references)

The peripheral nervous system also includes 12 pairs of cranial nerves located on the underside of the brain. (references)

The urethra, which is the channel for urine and ejaculate, runs along the underside of the corpora cavernosa. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Bulgarian 

обратната страна, обратната повърхност, долната страна, долната повърхност. (various references)

Chinese 

下面 (Below, Beneath, under, underneath). (various references)

Farsi 

سطح پاءینی , زیرین (Beneath, Under, Underneath), طرف یاسوی زیرین , دورنی . (various references)

French

sous-face (under side), face inférieure (under side), envers (unequal-sidedness), dessous (underneath, underthings, underwear, unmentionables). (various references)

German

Unterseite (bottom, bottom side, underneath, undersurface). (various references)

Greek 

κάτω πλευρά. (various references)

Hungarian

talapzat (leg, mounting, patten, pedestal, plinth, settling), alsó rész (downside, feet, foot), alsó oldal (downside), alsó lap. (various references)

Indonesian

bagian bawah. (various references)

Italian

parte inferiore (bottom), parte di sotto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下側 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したがわ. (various references)

Korean 

밑바닥. (various references)

Pig Latin

ersideunday.(various references)

Portuguese

parte inferior (base). (various references)

Russian 

изнанка (back, seamy side). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

donja površina. (various references)

Spanish

envés (back, wrong side). (various references)

Swedish

undersida (underneath). (various references)

Turkish

alt yüz, alt taraf, alt (base, bottom, buttom, inferior, infra, infra-, lower, lower part, Nether, sub-, subordinate, under, underneath). (various references)

Ukrainian

нижня частина (downstairs, underneath). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phía dưới, mặt dưới (underneath), cạnh dưới. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "underside": undersides. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Underside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anderida, underdid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: undesired.

-1 letter: denuders, sundered, uredines.

-2 letters: deniers, denuder, denudes, derides, desired, dudeens, duendes, endured, endures, ensured, insured, nereids, reddens, resided, residue, resined, undried, ureides.

-3 letters: denied, denier, denies, denser, denude, deride, desire, dienes, diners, druids, dudeen, duende, durned, eddies, eiders, enders, endued, endues, endure, ensued, ensure, enured, enures, indeed, indued, indues, insure, inured, inures, nereid.

+1 letter: sideburned, undersides, undersized.

+2 letters: disburdened, dundrearies, epidendrums, ruddinesses, underbodies, undersigned.

+3 letters: rediscounted, redundancies, superinduced, unadvertised, unconsidered, underbidders, underinsured, undershirted, understudied, understudies, undiscovered.

+4 letters: disburdenment, disencumbered, interdiffused, superintended.

+5 letters: disburdenments, hundredweights, overdiscounted, underestimated, undernourished.