What's the difference between subway and underground?

Subway


Definition:

  • (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
  • (4) The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, rode a bus to mark Sunday's official opening of a $700m (£417m) bus corridor for quickly moving people between the airport and subway stations in the western part of the city.
  • (5) – A 16km (10-mile) subway extension to take riders from central Rio to the Olympic Park in the western suburb of Barra da Tijuca is likely to be finished just a few weeks before the games open.
  • (6) She invested precious nickels on subway rides to potential employers and, when no job forthcame, explored the surrounding areas.
  • (7) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (8) This paper looks at the relationship between suicide-related newspaper reports and a subway-suicide epidemic.
  • (9) The emergency service tend to victims of the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack on Tokyo's subway in 1995.
  • (10) From the technical appointments of Claudio Reyna and Jason Kreis to a fan-sourced club crest reflecting the old New York subway tokens, when the club have had the ability to make and execute a decision by consensus they have generally made the best possible one.
  • (11) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
  • (12) I might of sucked a few dicks, I might of slept on a few subways, but I made it.” Three days after arriving in Oklahoma City, Beauty turned herself in on warrants outstanding from five years prior.
  • (13) Police closed a stretch of Toronto's subway system along the protest route, and the largest shopping mall closed after the protest began to turn violent.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority originally ruled that the posters were demeaning and would not be permitted in the city's subways, but allowed them after the anti-Muslim group took the agency to court.
  • (15) A man convicted in 2006 of attempting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan told an informant who concocted the plot he would have to check with his mother and was uncomfortable planting the bombs himself.
  • (16) Although the subway system is still down - with worryingly "no timeline for repair" - the major bridges into Manhattan are now open.
  • (17) Outside rush hour, the subway is eerily silent: thanks to a strong underground signal, everyone's staring at their smartphones, texting, playing games, or reading.
  • (18) A very smiley Freitas collects her cake, and I take the subway back downtown, only to find a very lonely lamppost where my bike was.
  • (19) But the halal meat served by KFC, Nando's, Pizza Express and Subway is certified by bodies that do permit pre-stunning.
  • (20) This is the worst terrorist act in France since 1995, when a bomb planted by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group exploded in the Saint Michel subway station, killing eight and injuring more than 100.

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.