(a.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
(a.) Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profits undershot analysts' forecasts as weak refining profit margins, higher production costs and output stoppages in Nigeria weighed on its performance.
(2) Relative errors were comparatively larger for very short and very long times-to-collision throughout, where events of the first kind were overshot, the latter ones undershot.
(3) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
(4) Illustration: CBI The CBI’s monthly figures undershot expectations in financial markets.
(5) Silver's model slightly undershot it by having Obama take the election by about 3pt .
(6) This definition is contrasted with situations in which the new viability optimum is undershot.
(7) Serum LDH activity declined to control within 8 hr, while serum CPK undershot controls at 8 hr and returned to the control value by 24 hr.
(8) If an anticipatory saccade was made after reaction times below 75 ms, it frequently undershot the target by more than 20% and was followed by a corrective saccade.
(9) Britain's growth performance has consistently undershot both government and IMF forecasts.
(10) When cells were subjected to hypoosmotic shock they occasionally undershot the new projected density, but the undershoot was not as dramatic as the overshoot seen with hyperosmotic shocks.
(11) The penetrance of the gene could possibly be masked in populations in which undershot jaw occurs.
(12) But it undershot economists' forecasts for 52.6 and was the weakest for four months.
(13) He deliberately allowed the forecast deficit to rise as growth undershot in the early years of the parliament,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS’s director.
(14) On this view, the tree would be so thoroughly hollowed-out that it may no longer be able to support itself.” Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ Read more Haldane said the increasing automation of the workplace might already be helping to depress wage growth, explaining why inflation has consistently undershot the government’s 2% target.
(15) Even after completion of a corrective saccade following the primary saccade, subjects systematically undershot target direction and overshot target depth, suggesting that visual feedback normally plays an important role in the fine guidance of gaze after the completion of a primary saccade.
(16) "The fourth-quarter GDP figures may have undershot predictions.
(17) The public finances undershot economists’ forecasts in January, but mainly because of a change in a way the Office for National Statistics (ONS) accounts for tax revenues.
(18) Again, that undershot forecasts, which had been for modest growth of 0.2% on the month.
(19) Even stripping out more volatile prices, such as fuel and food, the so-called core measure of inflation undershot expectations in September.
(20) It was above the 50-mark that separates growth from contraction but undershot forecasts of a 52.7 reading in a Reuters poll of economists.
Water
Definition:
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).