单词 | underpart |
释义 | underpartn. 1. a. A lower part or portion. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : † under-partv. < n.1662 see also |
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