What's the difference between undergird and underneath?

Undergird


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To blind below; to gird round the bottom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standards undergirding a suspicious activity report are defined as: " Observed behavior reasonably indicative of preoperational planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity ."
  • (2) A critical review of the literature undergirding these programs reveals wide gaps in knowledge about the relative efficacy of a variety of alternative strategies.
  • (3) Its intention is to show cosmetic surgeons some of the implicit and explicit philosophical principles and potential arguments undergirding their potential surgical evaluations.
  • (4) A portion of this core support has undergirded resources and research activities at Cayo Santiago.
  • (5) Perhaps for similar reasons our national literature has often been uneasy, if not outright resistant to the substratum of comic writing that has always undergirded it.
  • (6) A recent study from Lee Drutman at the New America Foundation finds that very few Americans at all – Republican or Democratic – support the kind of rightwing economic policies that undergird Trumpcare.
  • (7) Nursing knowledge of these strategies and the theoretical bases undergirding them has only begun to develop.
  • (8) Putting Tubman’s face on the fiscal system which undergirds the likes of Aetna (and its hundreds of millions in annual profits ) would be dismaying.
  • (9) The NSA initially claimed it could not find any record of Snowden electing to notify officials about his concerns on bulk surveillance after " extensive investigation " but in May released an email Snowden sent to the NSA general counsel's office inquiring about the legal hierarchy undergirding of surveillance practices.
  • (10) In a joint letter, 51 serving diplomats wrote: “None of us sees merit in a large-scale US invasion of Syria… But we do see merit in a more militarily assertive US role… based on the judicious use of standoff and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hardnosed US-led diplomatic process.” Military force, reasoned the frustrated officials, could “enforce the cessation of hostilities”.
  • (11) Senator Brandis, are you aware of, and have you or your office evaluated, any of the proposals for serious law reform put to President Obama in the case of indiscriminate surveillance by the NSA, and does the attorney believe that any of those proposals could be relevant here in Australia?” Brandis said he had studied Obama’s remarks carefully and Australian governments of both political persuasions were “always alert to ensure that the statutory framework which undergirds and provides for the accountability mechanism of our intelligence agencies is as appropriate and relevant as possible”.
  • (12) It is concluded that philosophy undergirds psychiatric nosology, while psychiatric nosology raises a series of philosophical questions.
  • (13) Anyone engaged in developing community health nursing theory would do well to consider which ideologic model is undergirding the process.
  • (14) Business is undergirded by “wasta”, the Arabic for connections.
  • (15) In their book, The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney propose four basic perspectives to undergird and inform the practice of psychiatry.
  • (16) The article raises questions about the relationship between UNOS and the federal government, about potential conflicts between UNOS guidelines and state laws under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, and about the ideological stance undergirding much of current federal policy in the organ transplantation arena.
  • (17) This article examines aspects of social work in health care from a philosophy of science perspective, which suggests different ways of conceptualizing and defining variables ranging from service recipients to principles undergirding social work intervention.
  • (18) A foreign policy which works closely with the US when it is undergirding regional peace and stability, but is willing and equipped to break from it when it is not.
  • (19) Ethics research explores the basic moral norms undergirding nursing research, practice, and education.
  • (20) Next on the list is reason: the attack on climate science is, in fact, an attack on science itself, on the enterprise that undergirds modernity.

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.