What's the difference between soffit and underside?

Soffit


Definition:

  • (n.) The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.

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Underside


Definition:

  • (n.) The lower or lowest side of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) April's blood was found in the bathroom and hall but, most importantly, on the underside of the carpet in front of the wood burner in the living room.
  • (2) Grossly, the sternebrae distal to the third sternebra were bent towards the underside, and the episternal extremity was turned towards the head.
  • (3) Prosthetic mesh is fitted and secured to the intestine and the underside of the abdominal wall, giving considerable strength to the area and avoiding complications.
  • (4) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (5) But because meltwater can percolate down to lubricate the undersides of glaciers, and because warmer oceans can lift the ends of glaciers up off the sea floor and remove a natural brake, the ice itself can end up getting dumped into the sea, unmelted.
  • (6) He crosses towards Cahill but it comes in low, not high, and Cahill fires a left-foot volley into the goal from the underside of the bar!
  • (7) The match took a while to warm up, with Mark Noble’s sweet strike against the underside of the bar the best of a humdrum first half.
  • (8) There was the same two-step approach, but this time he delayed a fraction and, with the instep of his right boot, produced a gentle chip that looped on to the underside of the bar and came down a foot or so inside the goal line before spinning back out.
  • (9) Similar arrays of studs were also found on vesicles trapped in the residual band of cytoplasm that remained attached to the underside of the plasma membrane, but none were seen in adjacent granular cells.
  • (10) When Spielberg asked him to design the mothership for the climax of Close Encounters, the artist drew on a dream from years earlier, in which he had seen an awe-inspiring spacecraft with pipes and stairways jutting out from its underside.
  • (11) In order to get a comparability between the two systems, we modified small Autocompression plates (ACP) by milling a slot in the underside, so that they could be used with the original ZESPOL screw bolts.
  • (12) The ball was floated the other way, where it caught the underside of the crossbar and dropped over the line.
  • (13) Similarly, people produce mirror reversals when asked to write a letter on the underside of a table at which they are sitting.
  • (14) After the game had ended 1-1 after extra time, the penalty shootout ebbed one way and another before Lovell Palmer's 10th penalty for RSL crashed back off the underside of the bar, sparking mass celebrations among the frozen Kansas City fans.
  • (15) The underside of the mature colony is brownish red.
  • (16) Katz admires how quiet it can be feet from the plant, where a roaring urban waterfall surges from the underside of an outside wall into a catch below.
  • (17) Meetings between these two sides often provide talking points and this one's came 60 seconds later when Lampard's shot from the edge of the box struck the underside of the crossbar and bounced down, with the referee ruling the ball had not crossed the goalline.
  • (18) As much as you might weep to think of those Soviet dogs strapped with explosives and trained to run under Wehrmacht tanks and blow them up from the underside, they weren’t really Soviet dogs.
  • (19) In the 28th minute Bravo tipped a Gerardo Flores header onto the underside of his crossbar and the Chilean defenders scrambled the ball to safety but with their next attack, the Mexicans restored their lead.
  • (20) The ball fell to Kane after a Ben Davies corner, with the striker showing impressive composure to get away a shot from an acute angle, rattling the underside of the bar.