Phonetics:
Meanings:
adjective
Definition: Being lower; being beneath something.
Definition: Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
Example: Ensure the patient is sufficiently under.
adverb
Definition: In a way lower or less than.
Definition: In a way inferior to.
Definition: In an unconscious state.
Example: It took the hypnotist several minutes to make his subject go under.
preposition
Definition: In or at a lower level than.
Definition: As a subject of; subordinate to.
Example: He served in World War II under General Omar Bradley.
Definition: Less than.
Definition: Below the surface of.
Definition: In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
Example: to collapse under stress; to give in under interrogation
Definition: As, in the character of.
Example: he writes books under the name John Smith