| slovo | definícia |
underground
(mass) | underground
- ilegalita, podzemie, podzemná dráha, metro |
underground
(encz) | underground,důlní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(encz) | underground,ilegální Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(encz) | underground,metro n: |
underground
(encz) | underground,pod zemí Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(encz) | underground,podzemí n: |
underground
(encz) | underground,podzemní Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(encz) | underground,podzemní dráha Pavel Cvrček |
underground
(encz) | underground,sklepní Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(encz) | underground,v ilegalitě Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(encz) | underground,v podzemí Zdeněk Brož |
underground
(gcide) | Subway \Sub"way`\, n.
1. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under
a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph
wires, etc., are conducted.
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2. An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by
electricity provided by an electric line running through
the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the
center portion of cities; -- called also tube, and in
Britain, underground. In certain other countries (as in
France or Russia) it is called the metro.
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Underground
(gcide) | Underground \Un"der*ground`\, adv.
Beneath the surface of the earth.
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Underground
(gcide) | Underground \Un"der*ground`\, n.
1. The place or space beneath the surface of the ground;
subterranean space.
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A spirit raised from depth of underground. --Shak.
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2. a subway or subway system, especially in the United
Kingdom. [chiefly British]
[PJC]
3. a secret organization opposed to the prevailing
government; as, the French underground during the Nazi
occupation.
[PJC]
4. a group or movement holding unorthodox views in an
environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in
artistic circles.
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Underground
(gcide) | Underground \Un"der*ground`\, a.
1. Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground
story or apartment.
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2. Done or occurring out of sight; secret. [Colloq.]
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Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under
Railroad.
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underground
(wn) | underground
adv 1: in or into hiding or secret operation; "the organization
was driven underground"
2: beneath the surface of the earth; "water flowing underground"
adj 1: under the level of the ground; "belowground storage
areas"; "underground caverns" [syn: belowground,
underground]
2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
"clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger
activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue";
"secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms";
"surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover
investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine,
cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger,
hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover,
underground]
n 1: a secret group organized to overthrow a government or
occupation force [syn: underground, resistance]
2: an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground
(usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called
the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the
`underground'" [syn: metro, tube, underground, {subway
system}, subway] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
complete underground wall
(encz) | complete underground wall,úplná podzemní stěna [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
dump of radioactive wastes in deep underground spaces
(encz) | dump of radioactive wastes in deep underground spaces,úložiště
radioakt.odpadů v hlubinných podzemních prostorách [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
the underground
(encz) | the underground, |
uncomplete underground wall
(encz) | uncomplete underground wall,neúplná podzemní stěna [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
underground economy
(encz) | underground economy,stínová Mgr. Dita Gálováunderground economy,šedá ekonomika Mgr. Dita Gálová |
underground press
(encz) | underground press, n: |
underground railroad
(encz) | underground railroad,metro Milan Svoboda |
underground screen
(encz) | underground screen,podzemní stěna [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
underground wall
(encz) | underground wall,podzemní stěna [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Underground
(gcide) | Subway \Sub"way`\, n.
1. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under
a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph
wires, etc., are conducted.
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2. An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by
electricity provided by an electric line running through
the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the
center portion of cities; -- called also tube, and in
Britain, underground. In certain other countries (as in
France or Russia) it is called the metro.
[PJC]Underground \Un"der*ground`\, adv.
Beneath the surface of the earth.
[1913 Webster]Underground \Un"der*ground`\, n.
1. The place or space beneath the surface of the ground;
subterranean space.
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A spirit raised from depth of underground. --Shak.
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2. a subway or subway system, especially in the United
Kingdom. [chiefly British]
[PJC]
3. a secret organization opposed to the prevailing
government; as, the French underground during the Nazi
occupation.
[PJC]
4. a group or movement holding unorthodox views in an
environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in
artistic circles.
[PJC]Underground \Un"der*ground`\, a.
1. Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground
story or apartment.
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2. Done or occurring out of sight; secret. [Colloq.]
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Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under
Railroad.
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Underground insurance
(gcide) | Underground insurance \Un"der*ground` in*sur"ance\
Wildcat insurance.
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Underground railroad
(gcide) | Railroad \Rail"road`\ (r[=a]l"r[=o]d`), Railway \Rail"way`\
(r[=a]l"w[=a]`), n.
1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks
for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a
bed or substructure.
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Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of
the older tramway.
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2. The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings,
rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and
constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been
put into the hands of a receiver.
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Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the
commoner word in the United States.
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Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and
railway are used interchangeably:
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Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See under
Atmospheric, Elevated, etc.
Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable.
Ferry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated
platform runs, for carrying a train of cars across a water
course.
Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which
the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long
distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an
elevated point by stationary engines.
Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or
locomotives.
Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels
fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [Eng.]
Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms
part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer.
Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe
concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad
accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other
disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain
in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral
disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till
some months after the injury.
Underground railroad Underground railway.
(a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as
beneath the streets of a city.
(b) Formerly, a system of cooperation among certain active
antislavery people in the United States prior to 1866,
by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach
Canada.
Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was
usually used.] "Their house was a principal entrep[^o]t
of the underground railroad." --W. D. Howells.
[1913 Webster]Underground \Un"der*ground`\, a.
1. Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground
story or apartment.
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2. Done or occurring out of sight; secret. [Colloq.]
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Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under
Railroad.
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Underground railway
(gcide) | Railroad \Rail"road`\ (r[=a]l"r[=o]d`), Railway \Rail"way`\
(r[=a]l"w[=a]`), n.
1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks
for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a
bed or substructure.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of
the older tramway.
[1913 Webster]
2. The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings,
rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and
constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been
put into the hands of a receiver.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the
commoner word in the United States.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and
railway are used interchangeably:
[1913 Webster]
Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See under
Atmospheric, Elevated, etc.
Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable.
Ferry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated
platform runs, for carrying a train of cars across a water
course.
Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which
the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long
distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an
elevated point by stationary engines.
Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or
locomotives.
Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels
fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [Eng.]
Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms
part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer.
Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe
concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad
accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other
disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain
in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral
disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till
some months after the injury.
Underground railroad Underground railway.
(a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as
beneath the streets of a city.
(b) Formerly, a system of cooperation among certain active
antislavery people in the United States prior to 1866,
by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach
Canada.
Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was
usually used.] "Their house was a principal entrep[^o]t
of the underground railroad." --W. D. Howells.
[1913 Webster]Underground \Un"der*ground`\, a.
1. Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground
story or apartment.
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2. Done or occurring out of sight; secret. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
Underground railroad or Underground railway. See under
Railroad.
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underground press
(wn) | underground press
n 1: a system of clandestine printing and distribution of
dissident or banned literature [syn: samizdat,
underground press] |
underground railroad
(wn) | Underground Railroad
n 1: secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by
abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
[syn: Underground Railroad, Underground Railway] |
underground railway
(wn) | Underground Railway
n 1: secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by
abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
[syn: Underground Railroad, Underground Railway] |
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