Timeline for Underneath / Beneath for hidden things
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:55 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 15:07 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:54 | history | edited | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
remove language on register
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:43 | history | edited | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added a note about reference frames
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:40 | comment | added | TimR | underneath is not "more literary" than under, nor more "formal", nor "fancier". | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:32 | comment | added | JeremyDouglass | There are almost no cases where "under" is not also a correct substitute for "underneath." This is not a separate definition, it is a more specific inflection. ...I think we need to stop using comments as a chat channel for now. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | SovereignSun | I've also noticed that "underneath" as a noun can be plural "underneaths" Makes me wonder how I can use that! | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:28 | comment | added | SovereignSun | According to different shades of "under" and "underneath" it is also interesting whether "I saw the tattoo under his shirt" correct while I think only "underneath" works alright here! | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:28 | comment | added | JeremyDouglass | The dirt is on the bottom of my shoes. Perhaps the underside, but more commonly: the underside of a carriage, the underside of a train car, the underside of an alligator. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:26 | comment | added | SovereignSun | Okay, then underneath should be a noun in that case: "The dirt is on the underneath of my shoes"? According to dics. "the part or side of something facing towards the ground; the underside." | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:24 | comment | added | JeremyDouglass | The children were playing below. Or they were playing beneath something (me, a tower, the sun). There's dirt on my shoes, on my soles. The dirt beneath them refers to the type of ground being walked on (vs concrete, grass). | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:23 | comment | added | SovereignSun | Dics tell us that "beneath" has a meaning "extending or directly underneath." so with tunnel theoretically speaking it should be beneath! No? | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:20 | comment | added | SovereignSun | Or this: A person walked on dirt and some of it has clung onto his shoes and he says "There's dirt under (underneath, beneath) my shoes." Which is correct? | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:19 | comment | added | JeremyDouglass | Well, tunnel is unambiguous, so it doesn't matter much. However, keep in mind that "beneath" is often used with "tree," so it can make things with a shadow (like a mountain) ambiguous. "He sells hotdogs beneath Trump Tower" might mean "he works in the basement" or it might mean "his hotdog stand sits in the shadow of the tower." However, "he sells hotdogs underneath Trump Tower" probably means the cafeteria is in the basement. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:16 | comment | added | SovereignSun | How about below and beneath and underneath in this context: I looked out the window and saw children playing below (beneath, underneath). | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:15 | comment | added | SovereignSun | What about these? The tunnel spreads beneath the alps. or The tunnel spreads underneath the alps. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:14 | history | edited | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
typo though-thought
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 9:05 | history | answered | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |