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Meaning of "undercurrent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERCURRENT

undercurrent  [ˈʌndəˌkʌrənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERCURRENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Undercurrent is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNDERCURRENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Undercurrent

An undercurrent is a subsurface current, a water current which flows beneath and usually independently of surface currents. Undercurrent may also refer to: ▪ Undercurrent, a film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Katharine Hepburn ▪ Undercurrent, a 1999 film starring Lorenzo Lamas ▪ Undercurrent, an Icelandic film, starring Gísli Örn Garðarsson ▪ Undercurrent, a 1960 album by pianist Kenny Drew ▪ Undercurrent, a 1963 album by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall ▪ The Undercurrent, a 2008 album by French band Scarve ▪ Undercurrent, a Canadian newspaper ▪ Undercurrent, a 2005 manga by Tetsuya Toyoda...

Definition of undercurrent in the English dictionary

The definition of undercurrent in the dictionary is a current that is not apparent at the surface or lies beneath another current. Other definition of undercurrent is an opinion, emotion, etc, lying beneath apparent feeling or meaning.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDERCURRENT


blackcurrant
ˌblækˈkʌrənt
concurrent
kənˈkʌrənt
countercurrent
ˈkaʊntəˌkʌrənt
crosscurrent
ˈkrɒsˌkʌrənt
currant
ˈkʌrənt
current
ˈkʌrənt
decurrent
dɪˈkʌrənt
excurrent
ɛkˈskʌrənt
incurrent
ɪnˈkʌrənt
intercurrent
ˌɪntəˈkʌrənt
noncurrent
ˌnɒnˈkʌrənt
nonrecurrent
ˌnɒnrɪˈkʌrənt
occurrent
əˈkʌrənt
palaeocurrent
ˈpælɪəʊˌkʌrənt
photocurrent
ˈfəʊtəʊˌkʌrənt
recurrent
rɪˈkʌrənt
redcurrant
ˈrɛdˈkʌrənt
supercurrent
ˈsuːpərˌkʌrənt
transcurrent
trænzˈkʌrənt
up-current
ˈʌpˌkʌrənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDERCURRENT

underclay
undercliff
underclothe
underclothes
underclothing
underclub
underclubbed
underclubbing
undercoat
undercoating
undercook
undercooked
undercool
undercount
undercover
undercovert
undercrackers
undercrest
undercroft
undercut

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDERCURRENT

abhorrent
air current
alternating current
BitTorrent
dark current
deterrent
different
direct current
eddy current
electric current
horrent
Humboldt Current
Japan Current
Labrador Current
nonconcurrent
North Atlantic Current
nuclear deterrent
residual current
rip current
torrent
turbidity current

Synonyms and antonyms of undercurrent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNDERCURRENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «undercurrent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of undercurrent

Translation of «undercurrent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDERCURRENT

Find out the translation of undercurrent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of undercurrent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «undercurrent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

潜在 > 倾向
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trasfondo
570 millions of speakers

English

undercurrent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अदेखा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خفي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подводное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tendência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অন্ত: প্রবাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

courant sous-jacent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undercurrent
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterton
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

心の底
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

>암류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Undercurrent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bí mật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंडरचुरेंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dip akıntısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sottofondo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nurt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підводне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subteran
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπόγειο ρεύμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ondertoon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

underström
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

underskog
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of undercurrent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERCURRENT»

The term «undercurrent» is regularly used and occupies the 60.684 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERCURRENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «undercurrent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «undercurrent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about undercurrent

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4 QUOTES WITH «UNDERCURRENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word undercurrent.
1
Julie Ann Dawson
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive.
2
Michael Heizer
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
3
Bernard Hill
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
4
Kangna Ranaut
I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERCURRENT»

Discover the use of undercurrent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to undercurrent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Undercurrent
After losing her sister and finding out that she is a siren, Vanessa faces her biggest challenge yet.
Tricia Rayburn, 2011
2
Undercurrent
In Undercurrent, Paul Blackwell's fast-paced teen thriller, sixteen-year-old Callum Harris survives a plummet over a waterfall but wakes to find himself in a life that's totally different from the one he knew.
Paul Blackwell, 2013
3
Undercurrent: Life After Katrina
These witty, understated, observant, characterful tales of the city are now collected in the fourth edition of the openDemocracy Quarterly.
Jim Gabour, 2008
4
Undercurrent
The Nameless detective is hired by a young wife to find out whether her husband has been having an affair.
Bill Pronzini, 2011
5
An Undercurrent of Suspicion: Anti-Communism in America ...
This book demonstrates that the "undercurrent of suspicion" against the Soviet Union, and communism in general, was considerably stronger under World War II than many Americans realize or recall.
George Sirgiovanni
6
Undercurrent blues: poems
Poetry. UNDERCURRENT BLUES is made up of both a sequel to his previous work, You and the Night and the Music, as well as a series of newer works written from 1997-2002.
James Cushing, 2005
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Undercurrent
Undercurrent by Linda Freeny When Frank Damien became a sheriff in the small town of Santa Barbara, nothing prepared him for a criminal investigation that would bring back the nightmares he thought he left on the streets of New York.
Linda Freeny, 2014
8
Undercurrent
Detective Inspector Andy Horton investigates a naval historian's death, which he believes was incorrectly ruled a suicide, and finds that his bosses may be covering up the true circumstances of the man's passing.
Pauline Rowson, 2013
9
Descriptive Physical Oceanography
The undercurrent in the Indian ocean is found to be better developed on the eastern side of the ocean than on the western side. But the observed current structure in the Indian ocean is different from that observed at the equator in the other ...
M. Affholder, F. Valiron, 2001
10
Undercurrent: A Novel
Three friends hike across frozen Lake Erie on a warm winter day, and two of them share a secret. When the trio goes missing, a community wonders what happened...
Jeff Schober, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERCURRENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term undercurrent is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mexican bluefin sellers rail against fishery bashing
Heberer told Undercurrent sport fishing in Mexico for bluefin was "some of the best we've had in quite a while" this year, and Ito said this follows record strong ... «Undercurrent News, Jul 15»
2
Ecuador shrimp prices nudge up on lower densities amid disease …
Ecuadorian shrimp exporters are seeing prices nudge up as farmers have lowered densities amid disease fears, sources told Undercurrent News. Talk in the ... «Undercurrent News, Jul 15»
3
Severnaya: Russian import volumes should increase towards end of …
"In many ways this year will just be a continuation,” said Prytz Larsen, echoing salmon sector analysts interviewed by Undercurrent who believed the renewal of ... «Undercurrent News, Jul 15»
4
UK market 'needs a small shrimp; not a coldwater shrimp'
“A price drop won't be huge, but at least 10%,” he told Undercurrent News. “Probably over the next three months, as shoppers begin to switch from coldwater to ... «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»
5
MW Brands begins partnership with Moroccan sardine cannery
The first source Undercurrent spoke with, familiar with the planned arrangement between the firms, stated that "two months ago the quality team was already in ... «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»
6
MSC Alaska salmon mediation process revives
... has offered to share its Alaska salmon MSC certification with Trident Seafoods for the 2015 season, the MSC told Undercurrent News in an email on Tuesday. «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»
7
Chilean salmon disappearing from Costco stores as Sam's Club …
Costco did not return request for comment from Undercurrent News on whether the lack of Chilean salmon at many store locations is part of a company policy to ... «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»
8
How Monsanto Gained Huge Control of the World's Food Supply
The Undercurrent, an online news site that bills itself as the antidote to the mainstream media's five-second soundbite, made a five-minute video explaining how ... «EcoWatch, Jun 15»
9
Foreign investment heats up in US seafood
Advisors told Undercurrent after the Oceana deal that Omega Protein is a likely candidate, given how strong of an asset it would be to global players that already ... «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»
10
Cooke buys Wanchese, launches new company
... the Daniels family for the purchase of Wanchese Fish Company based in Suffolk, Virginia US, confirming talks Undercurrent News has covered since last year. «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»

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