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单词 underpart
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underpartn.

Brit. /ˈʌndəpɑːt/, U.S. /ˈəndərˌpɑrt/
Etymology: under- prefix1 2b(b), 3a(b) Also under adj. 1b.
1.
a. A lower part or portion.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > lower part
nethermorea1382
netherer1435
lowera1500
underpart1662
1662 C. Wase Dict. Minus Subtundo, to knock, or beat the under-part of any thing.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Leaves Their Leaves..have shot out young Plants from their under-Parts.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 394/2 From the upper part of the lower deck to the under part of the main rail.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Fair-grass Said to be [so] denominated from the whiteness of the under part of the leaf.
b. spec. A part of the under-side of the body (of a bird or animal).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > belly
bellyc1440
barrel1703
underpart1783
venterc1790
underbody1879
underline1886
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 362 The under parts wholly white.
1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 21 The rest of the under parts dirty yellow.
1873 J. E. Taylor Half-hours in Green Lanes iv. 126 You could see their..black breasts and white underparts.
2. A subordinate part in action, esp. a minor rôle in a play; one who acts a subordinate part.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character
underpart1679
persona muta1714
travesty1732
soubrette1753
old man1762
small part?1774
breeches-part1779
character part1811
fat1812
chambermaida1828
fool?1835
raisonneur1845
ingénue1848
villain of the piece1854
stock character1864
feeder1866
satirette1870
character role1871
travesty1887
thinking part1890
walk-on1902
cardboard cutout1906
bit1926
good guy1928
feed1929
bad guy1932
goody1934
walkthrough1935
narrator1941
cameo1950
black hat1959
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part
ruffy1502
chorus1561
prologuer1570
prologue1579
turquet1625
woman actor1633
underpart1679
epilogist1716
prologist1716
epiloguizer1748
old man1762
prologuizer1762
buffo1764
extrac1777
jeune premier1817
primo buffo1826
character actor1841
utility man1849
deuteragonist1855
character comedian1857
bit playera1859
utility actor1860
serio-comic1866
juvenile lead1870
serio-comique1870
heavy1880
utility1885
thinker1886
onnagata1889
serio1889
juvenile1890
tritagonist1890
oyama1925
juve1935
the world > action or operation > [noun] > subordinate part in action
underpart1825
1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. a4 Making Œdipus the best and bravest person, and even Jocasta but an underpart to him.
1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires Ded. p. xlvii In the famous Pastoral of Guarini,..where Corisca and the Satyre are the Under-parts.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶ 1 My Friend, I found, acted but an under Part at his Table.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. ix. 98 You should have a Man of Art; One who might act an under-part.
1780 J. Berington State Eng. Catholics 66 Plot was set up against plot, all of them under-parts of the same grand drama.
1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 482 The kidneys play merely an under-part, and are only secondarily affected.
3. A subordinate part or portion; a subdivision.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a subordinate part
by-part1639
underpart1711
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > a subdivision
subdivisiona1450
subsection1621
subdichotomy1644
subdivider1654
specie1670
underpart1711
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. iii. 113 Our religious Pastors..have quitted their substantial Service, and uniform Division into Parts and Under-Parts.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. Pref. Nor is this..only in the principal Quality which constitutes the Main of each Character, but even in the Under-parts of it.
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