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单词 undertow
释义

undertown.

Brit. /ˈʌndətəʊ/, U.S. /ˈəndərˌtoʊ/
Etymology: under- prefix1 2b(c).
A sea-current below the surface of the water, moving in a contrary direction to that of the surface current.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > hidden tendency or activity
under-water1618
undercurrent1792
undertow1817
underplay1845
underswell1849
nigger in the fence1850
nigger in the woodpile1852
underflow1854
—— in the woodpile1857
undernote1857
undertone1861
underdrift1891
under-belly1962
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > under-current
underwork1610
underflood?1615
undercurrent1684
underset1815
undertow1817
subcurrent1822
underdrift1849
under-draught1853
underflow1854
under-water1859
undercarry1894
underrun1894
turbidity current1939
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind blowing at low level
ground-wind1618
underwind1726
undertow1879
1817 Sporting Mag. 50 221 A current,..at times counteracted by means of a strong opposing ‘undertow’, as it is called.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. ix. 289 The recoil of the sea, and what is called by sailors the undertow, carried him back again.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography xi. 172 The water bursts with great force upon the land, and then sweeps back, as a powerful ‘undertow’ to the sea.
figurative and in extended use.1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 232 There is always a strong ‘under-tow’, as the Americans would call it, of honest and well-disposed men in such situations.1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 41 The weathercock will sometimes point in precisely the opposite direction, obeying the ‘undertow’ of the gale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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