(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.
(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.
(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.
(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.
(adv.) In some part or page following.
Example Sentences:
Undershot
Definition:
(a.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
(a.) Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profits undershot analysts' forecasts as weak refining profit margins, higher production costs and output stoppages in Nigeria weighed on its performance.
(2) Relative errors were comparatively larger for very short and very long times-to-collision throughout, where events of the first kind were overshot, the latter ones undershot.
(3) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
(4) Illustration: CBI The CBI’s monthly figures undershot expectations in financial markets.
(5) Silver's model slightly undershot it by having Obama take the election by about 3pt .
(6) This definition is contrasted with situations in which the new viability optimum is undershot.
(7) Serum LDH activity declined to control within 8 hr, while serum CPK undershot controls at 8 hr and returned to the control value by 24 hr.
(8) If an anticipatory saccade was made after reaction times below 75 ms, it frequently undershot the target by more than 20% and was followed by a corrective saccade.
(9) Britain's growth performance has consistently undershot both government and IMF forecasts.
(10) When cells were subjected to hypoosmotic shock they occasionally undershot the new projected density, but the undershoot was not as dramatic as the overshoot seen with hyperosmotic shocks.
(11) The penetrance of the gene could possibly be masked in populations in which undershot jaw occurs.
(12) But it undershot economists' forecasts for 52.6 and was the weakest for four months.
(13) He deliberately allowed the forecast deficit to rise as growth undershot in the early years of the parliament,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS’s director.
(14) On this view, the tree would be so thoroughly hollowed-out that it may no longer be able to support itself.” Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ Read more Haldane said the increasing automation of the workplace might already be helping to depress wage growth, explaining why inflation has consistently undershot the government’s 2% target.
(15) Even after completion of a corrective saccade following the primary saccade, subjects systematically undershot target direction and overshot target depth, suggesting that visual feedback normally plays an important role in the fine guidance of gaze after the completion of a primary saccade.
(16) "The fourth-quarter GDP figures may have undershot predictions.
(17) The public finances undershot economists’ forecasts in January, but mainly because of a change in a way the Office for National Statistics (ONS) accounts for tax revenues.
(18) Again, that undershot forecasts, which had been for modest growth of 0.2% on the month.
(19) Even stripping out more volatile prices, such as fuel and food, the so-called core measure of inflation undershot expectations in September.
(20) It was above the 50-mark that separates growth from contraction but undershot forecasts of a 52.7 reading in a Reuters poll of economists.