What's the difference between overshot and undershot?

Overshot


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot
  • (a.) From Overshoot, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under some conditions the internal concentrations transiently overshot the steady-state values.
  • (2) Passengers on board a flight to Kalibo, in the Philippines, tweeted photos of the plane with its emergency chutes deployed after it apparently overshot the runway while landing in bad weather.
  • (3) Transferase activity toward estrone overshot control values during recovery and was elevated above its presurgery value at 7 days.
  • (4) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
  • (5) Erikson and Wlezien, who authored the great book The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter, actually overshot Obama's 3.9pt win by about a point, calling for a 5pt Obama victory .
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) Malcolm Turnbull's Faustian pact on climate change is heartbreaking | Mark Butler Read more But it will be able to count “carry over”, under the accounting rules governing international emissions calculations, because it “overshot” or did better than the special deal it received at the Kyoto meeting for its first climate change pledge to 2012.
  • (8) More discerning caffeine addicts will enjoy independent Incoming Coffee, right next door on Station Approach (if you find yourself at the Costa, you’ve overshot).
  • (9) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
  • (10) The spleen sequestered the damaged red cells selectively, while the liver compensated and overshot the sequestration for spleen after splenectomy.
  • (11) As a result, a) the initial rapid ventilatory component, phase 1, was not observed when initiated from light exercise, whereas the overshot phase 1 was observed from rest in anticipation and voluntary breathing frequency condition due to the rapid increase of tidal volume; b) compared with the anticipation condition, the phase 1 response of VE in the non-anticipation condition was slower with prior-rest, and not with prior-light exercise; and c) the restriction of the breathing frequency for entraining the exercise rhythm did not affect the initial rapid response, but decreased the fluctuation of VE in the steady state, compared to the condition of voluntary breathing frequency.
  • (12) He set out seven main policies: • A three-year cap on welfare spending, but with no detail on which benefits would be included in the cap or the action taken if the cap was in danger of being overshot.
  • (13) For both horizontal cell bodies and axons, the waveform in response to large spots or annuli consisted of a hyperpolarizing on-transient, followed by a depolarizing rollback to a sustained plateau during light on, and a rapidly depolarizing off-transient that overshot the dark potential level.
  • (14) These values dropped 10- to 100-fold and remained so until the methionine was withdrawn, then returned to, or overshot, the initial values.
  • (15) Food intake in formerly REST groups overshot on refeeding for 7 days, but this was significant only in DMNL rats.
  • (16) Although 30% of nitroprusside patients overshot their baseline MAP by more than 25%, no esmolol patients had this degree of rebound.
  • (17) Upon re-entry the Vostok vehicle overshot the designated landing site, which resulted in fasting of the animals for 42 h, exposure to cage temperatures of 12-15 degrees C, and 2 days delay in death of the rats.
  • (18) Overall, it's becoming clearer that the weakness of the economy is having a material impact on the public finances and it certainly looks as if the OBR's forecasts for this year for borrowing will be overshot.
  • (19) However, adjustments in infusion rate systematically overshot the desired change in steady state concentration, probably due to nonlinear clearance of HMBA.
  • (20) The resting potential of the cell was influenced mainly by the concentration of K. The peak of the receptor potential (the transient), which in a normal solution and with strong light approaches zero membrane potential, overshot this level in a K-rich solution.

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.

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