What's the difference between overground and underground?
Overground
Definition:
(a.) Situated over or above ground; as, the overground portion of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus there is a difference between the systems which mediate overground locomotion and those used by animals in treadmill locomotion or with L-DOPA or clonidine or brain stem stimulation.
(2) For both males and females stride length decreased, stride rate increased, and the period of non-support was also significantly less when running on a treadmill as compared to running overground.
(3) Outlining his transport manifesto, the Labour candidate launched a "London Travel Voucher" which promises "£1,000 off London Tube, bus and Overground" and which he said will only be valid if he is elected as London mayor.
(4) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
(5) The levels of TWA total and respirable dust and silica concentrations in the other underground mines as well as in the overground industries are strongly variable and high.
(6) Segmental afferent input, visual and other suprasegmental inputs, and motivational variables probably all contribute to the separation of treadmill and overground timing profiles.
(7) The mayor should be insisting on full public ownership, as well as public accountability, and should not be handing over rail operations to private [companies] like Arriva, which is due to take over London Overground next month.
(8) Contrast this with London Overground’s move to dispense with guards a few years ago, which was carefully negotiated with Bob Crow’s RMT and introduced with just one token day’s strike.
(9) The effect of the treatment on dry weight of overground parts of wheat, number of bacteria, production of carbon dioxide, urease activity and content of ammonium in the rhizosphere soil was investigated.
(10) The developers plead that the complexities of the site, which includes a working section of the London overground railway, make it unprofitable to offer more, or to reduce the bulk of their towers.
(11) The role of the dorsal spinocerebellar tract (DSCT) in the neural control of normal interlimb coordination during overground stepping in adult cats was investigated using select spinal cord lesions.
(12) 703 isolated from barley overground organs was obtained.
(13) The prevailing view, represented by the ACSM prediction formulas, is that overground hill running is theoretically more costly than inclined treadmill running.
(14) London Overground has become one of the most popular and punctual railways anywhere in the country.
(15) Experiments were performed on cats with chronic spinal lesions, in order to decide which systems either interlimb-propriospinal systems or direct descending systems, plays important roles for coordination of overground locomotion of the cat.
(16) Speed control mechanisms were investigated during overground locomotion in the dog.
(17) Contralateral descending and afferent systems alone cannot mediate overground locomotion.
(18) The 12-year contract to run Nuremberg’s overground urban trains appears to be the first time the German national rail company Deutsche Bahn has lost a major S-Bahn (city railway) franchise.
(19) This goes not just for subways, but overground trains, buses, cycleways, rickshaws, and every mobility solution in between.
(20) The coupling of movements of the hindlimbs and forelimbs has been analysed in intact cats stepping overground and on a treadmill and during swimming, and in decerebrate cats stepping on a treadmill, immersed in water('swimming') and stepping suspended in the air.
Underground
Definition:
(n.) The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
(a.) Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
(a.) Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
(adv.) Beneath the surface of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(2) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(3) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(4) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
(5) German intelligence services had also been keeping tabs on the rightwing radical scene that Zschäpe was a part of, but had lost track of her, along with Mundlos and Böhnhardt when they went underground.
(6) In the still active mine workers, dynamic spirometry results showed no difference between smokers or nonsmokers or between underground and surface workers.
(7) That said, Turin’s creative scene is quite underground, so you have to seek out the best work.
(8) During the non-heating months of June, July and August of 1974, the total and respirable dust content at an underground station of the Newark City Subway System was determined.
(9) Part of the initial work has involved London Underground strengthening the structure of Temple tube station by the Thames so the north end of the bridge could sit on top of it.
(10) This may serve evidence for the absence of a common morphofunctional underground for this process.
(11) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(12) Excess risks of lung cancer were found in both underground workers (SMR 3.41; 95% CI 1.10-7.97; based on 5 deaths) and surface workers (SMR 1.87, 95% CI 1.18-2.81; based on 23 deaths).
(13) Chest X-ray and sputum cytology were used to detect lung cancer among subjects with an underground work history over 10 years and over 40 years of age.
(14) Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80% of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground , along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves.
(15) His initial exposure to leftist ideas was via the underground hippy press which provided him "with a certain amount of scepticism".
(16) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(17) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
(18) Transport for London said a planned tube drivers' strike on the London Underground service on Boxing Day is unlikely to cause serious extra disruption should it go ahead, although works are planned on many lines.
(19) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
(20) It was concluded that the study did not provide support for the hypothesis that underground coalmining increases the risk of gastric cancer.