(n.) The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
(v. t.) To cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(2) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(3) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
(4) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
(5) Differences between frameworks, number of clasps, and depth of undercuts were all significant.
(6) The absence of a credible vision of a reformed EMU and financial 'firewall' has rendered Spain and other so-called peripheral nations vulnerable to capital flight and undercut their access to affordable fiscal funding."
(7) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
(8) Zinc oxide-eugenol paste are widely used in clinical dentistry, principally for impression of non-undercut edentulous ridges, or bite taking materials.
(9) That will also benefit the many companies that do innovate and invest in their staff and pay their taxes – and should not be undercut by the unethical practices of a few.
(10) Combinations of undercut dimensions and tray relief were tested by using three different sized trays with each tissue conditioner.
(11) For the precipitation of protein the pH-value 3 must not be undercut.
(12) Indeed, this anti-patriarchal behaviour, which undercuts the nuclear family and makes partnership with men a peripheral concern, is something to celebrate.
(13) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
(14) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
(15) Simon Burgess, a specialist PPI broker who claims to undercut bank rates by 50%, says: "It is easy to hide profits through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
(16) Agüero's deadlock-breaker was undercut by trademark explosiveness.
(17) Support for waterboarding would not undercut such advocacy, he insisted.
(18) He says it made a huge difference because by putting out the narrative of a protest gone wrong, the Obama administration undercut Libyan president Magarief, who was calling the attack a terror attack.
(19) That will be attractive to publishers worried that ebooks will undercut them.
(20) The so-called margin control mechanism is designed to stop BT undercutting rivals.
Underneath
Definition:
(adv.) Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.
(prep.) Under; beneath; below.
Example Sentences:
(1) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(2) Degenerating seminiferous tubules and areas of cellular connective tissue are located underneath or within the tunica albuginea.
(3) I feel like there's a weakness and I feel like I'm doing something right to get underneath his skin.
(4) Underneath the envelope, p17 forms the matrix protein layer, while the capsid of the double cone shaped core is built up of p24.
(5) The small part of the flap that passed underneath the auricular skin or through the auricular cartilage is deepithelialized.
(6) The T-1 nerve root obstructs posterolateral access to the T-1 vertebra, necessitating an inferolateral approach underneath the T-1 nerve root axilla.
(7) Light microscopic and electron microscopic examinations showed that the cysts are lined by flattened to cuboidal epithelial cells which, on their surface, have microvilli of different lengths and underneath a continuous basement membrane.
(8) One described how the young Michael would walk around with a copy of Paris Match underneath his arm, telling people that his goal was to be prime minister.
(9) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(10) I considered it, paced up and down, but thought whatever was underneath might be worse and I would have no money for anything else, so I said I'd keep it.
(11) Ruthenium red-positive anionic sites were distributed in the basal lamina and on thin filaments underneath the basal lamina.
(12) The occlusion of arterioles underneath the site suggests that circulation through the lacunae at this stage is indirect.
(13) So all these things are going through your head as I'm on my belly crawling to get underneath this shutter.
(14) Alongside aid, you do need an investment in local leadership, the systems that sit underneath them, and the capability of the people that run them,” Thompson said.
(15) This is achieved by inserting the outer layer underneath a dorsally displaced, bony lamella of the outer malleolus.
(16) But those who knew him say that underneath he was a softie.
(17) At both times, the ex-ethanol-treated rats showed significantly impaired between-day habituation of exploratory head-dipping at holes that were empty, but normal between-day habituation of head-dipping at the hole with the same object underneath on all 3 days.
(18) I meet Olsen in London, somewhere east of Dingwalls (a venue she's due to play later) and in the neighbourhood of the Observer 's offices.. She's wearing dark clothes and oversized shades, pale‑faced underneath.
(19) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
(20) Fellaini has now taken his tracksuit off, fortunately he has a Man Utd strip underneath,” was the message posted on their official Twitter account moments before the Belgian came on for Herrera.