underset

n. 下层流, 下层矿脉

发音

US

词形变化

undersets 复数 undersets undersets 三单 undersetting 现在分词

别名

under-set

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    undercurrent (of water)

v.
  1. 1.

    To set under or beneath.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To prop or support.

词源

From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).

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