What's the difference between undergird and underside?

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.

Underside


Definition:

  • (n.) The lower or lowest side of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) April's blood was found in the bathroom and hall but, most importantly, on the underside of the carpet in front of the wood burner in the living room.
  • (2) Grossly, the sternebrae distal to the third sternebra were bent towards the underside, and the episternal extremity was turned towards the head.
  • (3) Prosthetic mesh is fitted and secured to the intestine and the underside of the abdominal wall, giving considerable strength to the area and avoiding complications.
  • (4) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (5) But because meltwater can percolate down to lubricate the undersides of glaciers, and because warmer oceans can lift the ends of glaciers up off the sea floor and remove a natural brake, the ice itself can end up getting dumped into the sea, unmelted.
  • (6) He crosses towards Cahill but it comes in low, not high, and Cahill fires a left-foot volley into the goal from the underside of the bar!
  • (7) The match took a while to warm up, with Mark Noble’s sweet strike against the underside of the bar the best of a humdrum first half.
  • (8) There was the same two-step approach, but this time he delayed a fraction and, with the instep of his right boot, produced a gentle chip that looped on to the underside of the bar and came down a foot or so inside the goal line before spinning back out.
  • (9) Similar arrays of studs were also found on vesicles trapped in the residual band of cytoplasm that remained attached to the underside of the plasma membrane, but none were seen in adjacent granular cells.
  • (10) When Spielberg asked him to design the mothership for the climax of Close Encounters, the artist drew on a dream from years earlier, in which he had seen an awe-inspiring spacecraft with pipes and stairways jutting out from its underside.
  • (11) In order to get a comparability between the two systems, we modified small Autocompression plates (ACP) by milling a slot in the underside, so that they could be used with the original ZESPOL screw bolts.
  • (12) The ball was floated the other way, where it caught the underside of the crossbar and dropped over the line.
  • (13) Similarly, people produce mirror reversals when asked to write a letter on the underside of a table at which they are sitting.
  • (14) After the game had ended 1-1 after extra time, the penalty shootout ebbed one way and another before Lovell Palmer's 10th penalty for RSL crashed back off the underside of the bar, sparking mass celebrations among the frozen Kansas City fans.
  • (15) The underside of the mature colony is brownish red.
  • (16) Katz admires how quiet it can be feet from the plant, where a roaring urban waterfall surges from the underside of an outside wall into a catch below.
  • (17) Meetings between these two sides often provide talking points and this one's came 60 seconds later when Lampard's shot from the edge of the box struck the underside of the crossbar and bounced down, with the referee ruling the ball had not crossed the goalline.
  • (18) As much as you might weep to think of those Soviet dogs strapped with explosives and trained to run under Wehrmacht tanks and blow them up from the underside, they weren’t really Soviet dogs.
  • (19) In the 28th minute Bravo tipped a Gerardo Flores header onto the underside of his crossbar and the Chilean defenders scrambled the ball to safety but with their next attack, the Mexicans restored their lead.
  • (20) The ball fell to Kane after a Ben Davies corner, with the striker showing impressive composure to get away a shot from an acute angle, rattling the underside of the bar.