What's the difference between underclay and underplay?
Underclay
Definition:
(n.) A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
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Underplay
Definition:
(v. i.) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
(v. i.) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
(n.) The act of underplaying.
Example Sentences:
(1) "References to 'the miracles' that companies are able to perform risks underplaying the role that donors like DfID and country governments have in ensuring that economic development provides benefits to the poorest in society."
(2) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
(3) Such detail was generally underplayed or not accessible, and its full significance for children in each family could only be assessed by combining direct personal clinical involvement with record linkage methods, depending in turn on good co-operation from all agencies concerned wholly or partly with child protection.
(4) Barlow says the importance of studying literature should not be underplayed.
(5) @Camila_nobrega Media platforms should make complex development issues accessible to the public: An important role of the media is to simplify development information but also to handle academic research without underplaying its complexity.
(6) But it was important that MPs did not duck or underplay the importance of welfare reform.
(7) But the findings, though grim, may underplay the threat to survival of North America’s birds.
(8) At Ukip’s spring conference last week Farage was emphatic: “I don’t think anybody for one moment can underplay just how important, just how fundamental that byelection is for the futures of both the Labour party and indeed of Ukip too – it matters and it matters hugely,” he said.
(9) In the end, though, it is difficult to underplay the part that money played in the transfer – including for Lanzini’s advisers and associates.
(10) While the intended thrust of this paper has been to elicidate the tremendous potential of the behavioral-ecological perspective for health care research and application, the intent has not been to underplay the important role of the biological sciences in the same venture.
(11) Overplaying natural variations in the weather as climate change is just as much a distortion of science as underplaying them to claim that climate change has stopped or is not happening."
(12) But Sánchez, who wants to focus on social and economic development programmes, continues to publicly underplay the devastating impact of crime on ordinary people’s lives.
(13) Kieron is a thoughtful and level-headed young man, so he may have underplayed events unfolding at sea to make sure we wouldn't worry.
(14) I feel that he is vastly underplayed at both the club and international level."
(15) One Ohio official, addressing Frost, said: “You're not entitled to a pain-free execution.” Waisel told the Guardian that, were initial reports from eyewitnesses accurate, the only mistake he made in his legal declaration was to underplay the length of time it would take for McGuire to lose consciousness.
(16) A report's value can be overplayed if it tells us what we want to hear, or it can be underplayed if it contains unwelcome news or runs against received wisdom.
(17) Fellow actors still analyse the almost throwaway technique of understatement with which he upstaged Laurence Olivier during that player's prime and held his own with Charles Laughton, a grand master of underplayed idiosyncracy.
(18) But lawyers and families of plaintiffs from the Brown case were urged by other speakers not to underplay their momentous achievement during the emotional lunch at the National Press Club.
(19) They find that the circumstances in which competency becomes an issue determine which elements of which tests are stressed and which are underplayed.
(20) The British nuclear industry has a fairly decent safety record, but prudence and openness is vital because the global atomic industry has long been associated with secrecy and has in the past initially underplayed incidents, the worst being the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.