UNDERSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underside mean? 

• UNDERSIDE (noun)
  The noun UNDERSIDE has 1 sense:

1. the lower side of anything

  Familiarity information: UNDERSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lower side of anything

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

bottom; underside; undersurface

Hypernyms ("underside" is a kind of...):

face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "underside"):

base (a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit)

bilge (where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom)

heel (the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation)

sole (the underside of footwear or a golf club)

underbelly (lower side)

 Context examples 

That exposes more of a glacier's underside to sea water, increasing the likelihood its melt rate will accelerate.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

But White Fang could not get at the soft underside of the throat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A fan shaped muscle running from the underside of the tongue to the mandible which depresses and protrudes the tongue.

(Genioglossus, NCI Thesaurus)

Closest to the black hole, the gravitational light-bending becomes so excessive that we can see the underside of the disk as a bright ring of light seemingly outlining the black hole.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

He rolled up his shirt-sleeve and compared the white underside if the arm with his face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At first she could see no injury, but as she tried to raise him she saw that blood was pouring from the underside of his neck.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any of the four arteries that arise from the dorsalis pedis artery that extend on the underside of the metatarsal bones in the foot.

(Plantar Metatarsal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The underside concavity where the arm and the shoulder are joined.

(Axilla, NCI Thesaurus)

The legs, chest, ears, tail and undersides are abundantly feathered.

(Field Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

Two rows of vascular fringes projecting from the underside of the tela choroidea where it exists over the third ventricle where cerebrospinal fluid is produced.

(Choroid Plexus of the Third Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)