What's the difference between submarine and underhand?

Submarine


Definition:

  • (a.) Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.
  • (n.) A submarine plant or animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
  • (2) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
  • (3) He says: "Everybody in Britain wants to be safe in their bed at night, but they don't want to build the submarines.
  • (4) South Australian MPs were concerned if Japan was awarded the contract local shipbuilder ASC would miss out on the chance to build the submarines.
  • (5) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
  • (6) This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that personnel assigned to submarine duty would display less physical fitness as compared to shore-based personnel.
  • (7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
  • (8) A potentially serious, and expensive problem is that the UK and US timetables for building a new generation of submarines and missiles to go on them are out of sync.
  • (9) He promised to be consultative and then made a promise to a backbencher about awarding the submarines contract without consulting his cabinet, or even some of his South Australian ministers.
  • (10) A later investigation suggests the boat was sunk by a torpedo launched from a North Korean submarine.
  • (11) In a confidential report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that safety failings at the UK's main nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow, are a "recurring theme" and ingrained in the base's culture.
  • (12) Australian officials estimate developing up to 12 submarines to replace ageing Collins-class submarines will cost at least $50bn (US$40bn).
  • (13) America's biggest companies have spent a similar amount beefing up their cybersecurity in the past five years, but analysts say this hasn't been enough to prevent "significant military losses" involving stealth, nuclear weapon and submarine technology, though none of the companies involved will admit it.
  • (14) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
  • (15) Repetitive, three-month separations and reunions are experienced by a group of United States Navy submariners and their wives.
  • (16) According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea when the vessel approached.
  • (17) In some situations the precrash position of the occupant allowed him to submarine beneath the belt system, allowing the belt to ride up on the soft belly wall.
  • (18) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
  • (19) By combining earlier results from ICESat and data from other studies, including measurements made by submarines travelling under the polar ice cap, Laxon said preliminary analysis now gave a clear indication of Arctic sea-ice loss over the past eight years, both in winter and in summer.
  • (20) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.

Underhand


Definition:

  • (a.) Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.
  • (a.) Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.
  • (adv.) By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly.
  • (adv.) In an underhand manner; -- said of pitching or bowling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (2) Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy.
  • (3) It is plain that, by means up-front and underhand, unemployment benefit is being systematically destroyed as a reliable source of income.
  • (4) We are going to work it out.” Mercedes’ executive director, Toto Wolff, said of the feud: “As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team spirit, as long as it is not underhand, we will handle the situation in the way we did before.
  • (5) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
  • (6) In 2006, Norris told the Observer: "I never became involved with underhand dealings or giving money to coppers."
  • (7) However, the health secretary is likely to face a parliamentary inquiry into his department’s figures after the Commons public accounts committee accused him of “underhand” behaviour in publishing his department’s figures on the last day before MPs leave for their summer break.
  • (8) They say they are the target of underhand plots by their political opponents.
  • (9) Some member states saw it as an underhand way for the UK to get an advantage.
  • (10) This time, the senior point guard made an underhanded flip to Jenkins, who spotted up a pace or two behind the arc and swished it with Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks running at him.
  • (11) The Abbott government should listen to the people of Australia instead of trying to bully them and wear them down with expensive advertising propaganda campaigns and underhanded political tactics.” Even if the PUP decided to support a compromise package, the votes of Lambie, Xenophon and Muir would be enough to defeat the bill when combined with Labor and the Greens.
  • (12) If he is no longer the favoured man, why is the education secretary so underhand in his disapproval?
  • (13) Nor does there need to be personal or commercial gain from underhand behaviour.
  • (14) "They occur where there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or sometimes something more underhand," says a spokesman.
  • (15) A visual model performing an underhand modified softball pitch was viewed prior to each of four blocks of five practice trials.
  • (16) "In those days, what was considered proper reporting was to do things in as underhand and as deceitful a way as possible.
  • (17) BAE's underhand methods further call into question the intimate relationship between BAE and the government."
  • (18) Transparency campaigners said the groups' funding left them open to allegations of underhand dealings.
  • (19) It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.
  • (20) Such transactions are commonplace in San Francisco and the Silk Road was meant to be their alternative: a place where anyone who wanted drugs could buy them without associating with underhanded dealers or entering dangerous alleyways.