Undergrounds

Definition

under /'ʌndǝ(r) / prep ၁။ ေအာက္၌၊ မွာ၊ တြင္။ ေအာက္ သို႔၊ ကို။ ေအာက္။ The cat was under the table. ❍ Have you looked under the bed? ❍ Let's shelter under those trees. ❍ He threw himself under a bus. ❍ The water flows under the bridge. ❍ ( fig ) What sign of the zodiac were you born under? Compare OVER prep ၁ ၂။ ေအာက္၌၊ မွာ၊ တြင္။ ေအာက္။ Most of the iceberg is under the water. ❍ The Channel Tunnel goes under the sea. ❍ She slipped under the bedclothes. ❍ Are you wearing a vest under your shirt? ၃။ ေအာက္၌၊ မွာ၊ တြင္။ ေအာက္။ a ladder placed under a window. ၄။ (က) ေအာက္။ Nobody under eighteen is allowed to buy alcohol. ❍ If you are 25 or under you can buy cheaper tickets. See also UNDER AGE ❍ AGE n (ခ) ေအာက္။ ယုတ္။ ေပ်ာ့ ေပ်ာ့။ an annual income of under £ 10000 ❍ It's under a mile from here to the post office. ❍ It took us under an hour. Compare OVER prep ၅ ၅။ (က) လက္ေအာက္မွာ။ ေအာက္။ The restaurant is under new management. ❍ She has a staff of 19 working under her. (ခ) လက္ေအာက္။ ေအာက္။ Britain under the Tories ❍ The country is now under martial law. ❍ Under its new conductor, the orchestra has established an international reputation. (ဂ) (ဥပေဒ၊ စည္းကမ္းစည္းမ်ဥ္း) အရ။ Six suspects are being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. ❍ Under the terms of the lease you had no right to sublet the property. ❍ Is the radio still under guarantee? ၆။ (မႏိုင့္တႏိုင္) သယ္လ်က္။ ထမ္းရင္း။ She was struggling under the weight of three suitcases. ❍ The wall collapsed under the strain. ၇။ (က) (ျပဳျပင္၊ စစ္ေဆးစသည္)ဆဲ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ buildings under repair/ construction ❍ matters under consideration/ discussion/ investigation. (ခ) (လႊမ္းမိုး၊ ဖိစီးမႈ) ေအာက္တြင္။ feeling under stress ❍ He's very much under the influence of the older boys. ❍ You'll be under (an) anaesthetic, so you won't feel a thing. မင္းကို ေမ့ေဆးေပးထားမွာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ မင္းဘာမွ် သိလိုက္မွာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ၈။ (က) နာမည္ခံလ်က္။ … အမည္ျဖင့္။ open a bank account under a false name ❍ She also writes under the pseudonym of Barbara Vine. (ခ) ေခါင္းစဥ္ေအာက္တြင္။ If it's not under "sport", try looking under "games". ၉။ စိုက္လ်က္။ စိုက္ထားလ်က္။ fields under wheat. adv part ၁။ ေအာက္။ If you take a deep breath you can stay under for more than a minute. ❍ The ship went under (ie sank) on its first voyage. ၂။ သတိလစ္ (မလို ျဖစ္သည္၊ သြားသည္)။ She felt herself going under. adj ေအာက္(မ်က္ႏွာျပင္၊ အလႊာ စသည္)။ the under layer ❍ the under surface of a leaf. pref ၁။ (with ns ) (က) (မ်က္ႏွာျပင္) ေအာက္။ undergrowth ပင္ေျခပိတ္ေပါင္း။ ❍ undercurrent. (ခ) (အသက္…ႏွစ္) ေအာက္။ under-fives. (ဂ) ေအာက္(အဆင့္)။ under-secretary ❍ undergraduate. ၂။ …လိုေသးေသာ။ underripe ❍ undercooked ❍ underdeveloped. Compare SUB-

Examples

1. We took shelter under an oak tree.
2. What are you kids doing under the table?
3. You might like to place the dish under a hot grill just before serving.
4. [from under] : Charlotte saw a light coming from under the door.
5. She was wearing a money belt under her sweater.
6. I found the letter under a pile of books.
7. Plants growing under plastic sheeting
8. I think the ball rolled under the sofa.
9. Everyone ran under the trees when it started to rain.
10. She slid under the quilt and closed her eyes.
11. We drove under the bridge and came out into the High Street.
12. The cord will have to go under the table and behind the couch.
13. The ducks kept diving under the water to catch fish.
14. He was the first person to claim there was oil under the North Sea.
15. She jumped in the pool and went under.
16. There is a working holiday scheme for British citizens
17. but you have to be under 26.
18. Together they control just under 50% of the company.
19. A visa is not required for a stay of under three months.
20. The car can get from standstill up to 60 miles per hour in under six seconds.
21. The nursery is open for children aged four and under.
22. The ship came under attack from enemy aircraft.
23. A number of proposals are under consideration.
24. The building is still under construction.
25. Costello’s business dealings have been under investigation by the FBI for months.
26. I’ve been under a lot of stress at work lately.
27. Police claim the situation is now under control.
28. Evidence suggests that the driver of the car was under the influence of drugs.
29. His older brother was forced to leave Hong Kong the year before under similar circumstances.
30. The UN inspectors would be allowed access to the eight sites
31. but only under certain conditions.
32. [under the circumstances] : Under the circumstances
33. Kane felt he had no option but to resign.
34. Under the terms of the agreement
35. our company will receive 40% of the profits.
36. The boy is considered a minor under British law.
37. All individuals have basic human rights
38. that are recognized under international law.
39. The book describes life in Russia under the Soviet regime.
40. Dr Owen had served as Foreign Secretary under the previous government.
41. Some former conservatives are returning to the party under the new leader.
42. Carson had been travelling under a false name.
43. Wight’s books
44. published under the pen name James Herriot
45. became best-sellers.
46. Ms Hay has continued to work under her maiden name since her marriage.
47. I’ve worked under a few managers in my time
48. and Mr Laurie is undoubtedly the best.
49. He studied under Chomsky in the 1960s.
50. Look under Section Q and you’ll find all the details.
51. Those forms are in the filing cabinet under ‘Miscellaneous’.
52. The tickets should be under the name ‘Carlson’.
53. The nurse was still speaking as I felt myself going under.
54. [be under the impression/delusion] : I was under the impression that Faye had paid for the trip herself – but it seems I was wrong.
55. Several players are under treatment for injuries.
56. [under the doctor] : She’s been under the doctor for her skin problems.
57. [under sedation/anaesthetic] : Many of the victims were under sedation after the attack.
58. I was born under the sign of Taurus
59. the bull.