What's the difference between nether and netherworld?

Nether


Definition:

  • (a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That shows the level of support for us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Retired health manager Margaret Alexander, pictured with husband Gordon: ‘Why can’t our government find the money?’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Up the road at the village of Nether Stowey, retired health managers Gordon and Margaret Alexander, 84 and 78 respectively, were admiring the flowers outside Coleridge’s old cottage .
  • (2) Nether glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity nor [125I]iodoglucagon binding could be detected in the poorly differentiated hepatomas.
  • (3) By this research the percentage of school-children living in a mainly rural district in Nether Saxony whose carriage is endangered is to be stated and besides that it is to be examined whether and how far orthopedic training, practised by special nurses for physical training, can help to improve their carriage.
  • (4) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
  • (5) I don't take much notice: as a frontline sergeant in a busy multicultural town in the nether regions of England, there isn't anywhere worse they can put me, and nothing they do will change the nature of my work.
  • (6) There were other people on the beach, including picnicking families, but it was not packed, and they were mainly in the water, with their nether regions hidden.
  • (7) He shows us its hollowed-out nether regions and parson’s nose in a deliberately obscene way.
  • (8) Nearest station to Nether Stowey is Bridgwater – take the bus to Williton and Minehead.
  • (9) It is nether possible nor desirable for analysis to adopt the neutral attitudes and techniques of the natural science observer.
  • (10) (Nether Alderley, Cheshire) Professor Alistair Stanyer Burns.
  • (11) Recently, as the morning sun stretched towards my bedroom window, my mind became stranded in that nether world between sleep and waking.
  • (12) The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions.
  • (13) Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.
  • (14) On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip.
  • (15) You've just had a baby and 28 stitches in your nethers?
  • (16) Nether Stowey butcher Andrew Pope, who lives on a farm next door to the site, was more relaxed.
  • (17) OS Map: Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales: southern & western areas Coleridge's cottage to Wordsworth's house Somerset Quantock Hills at Coleridge Way nature walk, Nether Stowey, Somerset.
  • (18) Nether thrombosis nor stenosis of the renal veins and the inferior vena cava was present.
  • (19) Terkel disliked this nether region beneath the skyscrapers.
  • (20) Have a look at Danny's website - it's top notch ... and I'm not just saying that because he's blowing smoke up my nether regions.

Netherworld


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
  • (2) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
  • (3) When called up by Jurgen Klinsmann, "Jack Mac" couldn't wrestle playing time away from Chris Wondolowski, a player who embodies that netherworld between Major League Soccer significance and national team relevance.
  • (4) Glazer shoots everything - from the rainy streets of Glasgow to the barren netherworld of the alien lair - with a tear-jerking sensitivity to beauty.
  • (5) Many exist in an illegal netherworld in the sprawling city itself.
  • (6) On the downside, the film superseded L Frank Baum's book, which followed Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories for boys into the netherworld of semi-obsolete children's fare.
  • (7) The style and substance will be familiar to readers of pop psychology bestsellers such as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink or Jonah Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist: for Brooks the unconscious isn't a seething Freudian netherworld of sexual urges, but where we make the key decisions of our lives – whom to date and marry, how to vote.
  • (8) Sundar has a talent for creating products that are technically excellent yet easy to use – and he loves a big bet,” Page wrote when he promoted Pichai and moved Andy Rubin, the company’s former head of Android, into the robot-and-drone-filled netherworld that now comprises Alphabet’s non-Google divisions.
  • (9) I was cleared of my "crime" – but not before I'd lost two years of my life in a netherworld of prisons, police, tags and harassment.
  • (10) Superheroes operate in a netherworld just this side of fascism.