Subterranean
adjective
Something that exists, happens, or is used below the ground or surface of the Earth.
They discovered a subterranean cave filled with ancient artifacts.
Often appears as...
- subterranean cave
- subterranean rivers
adjective
Hidden or secret; not known or seen by people generally.
There are often subterranean influences at work in politics, which the public is not aware of.
Often appears as...
- subterranean activities
- subterranean influences
adjective
Something that exists, happens, or is used below the ground or surface of the Earth.
They discovered a subterranean cave filled with ancient artifacts.
Often appears as...
- subterranean cave
- subterranean rivers
adjective
Hidden or secret; not known or seen by people generally.
There are often subterranean influences at work in politics, which the public is not aware of.
Often appears as...
- subterranean activities
- subterranean influences
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Context
The word 'subterranean' is often used when talking about natural or man-made objects below the Earth's surface.
Engineers are concerned about the subterranean water levels affecting the building's foundation.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Realm Focus
'Subterranean' specifically denotes things not visible on the surface, especially related to geography and structures.
Subterranean tunnels provided the miners access to the coal seams.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For People
While 'subterranean' often describes places, it's not typically used to describe people or animals.
The documentary highlighted the subterranean habitats of various insects.
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How we can make crops...
They tend to be small, very attractive, but they hold onto their water at such great cost that they grow extremely slowly. Examples of avoidance of water loss are found in trees and shrubs. They send down very deep roots, mine subterranean water supplies and just keep flushing it through them at all times,
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Elon Musk: A future...
I mean, maybe there's a scenario where your city on Mars doesn't need a million people, it needs half a million people and half a million robots. And that's a possibility. Maybe The Boring Company could play a role helping create some of the subterranean dwelling spaces that you might need. Yeah.
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This weird trick will...
by worm grunters and moles digging, their frequencies overlapped substantially. This was it. Over hundreds of thousands of years, these earthworms evolved a behavior that helped them escape a top predator. Aboveground, they were immune to the moles, which usually stayed subterranean.
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How North America got...
That lowers the magma's melting point and makes it rise into the overlying North American plate. From a subterranean chamber, the magma travels upwards and erupts along a chain of volcanos. Magma still deep underground slowly cools, crystallizing to form solid rock,
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Stalking the Wild...
stalking the wild neutrino was the rarest of sport the length one must code track them down nothing short of astonishing welcome to super kameoka subterranean Japanese neutrino detection chamber more than a half-mile these are
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Savitri and Satyavan:...
Again the wish was granted, and Yamraj began his descent into his subterranean kingdom. But when he glanced back, he was astounded to see the bedraggled princess stumbling along. He’d never seen such devotion to the dead,
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Volcanic eruption...
in magmastatic pressure very difficult. But volcanologists are constantly exploring new technology to conquer this rocky terrain. Advances in thermal imaging have allowed scientists to detect subterranean hotspots.
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Why are these 32 symbols...
There's something about caves -- a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world --
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Adorable Baby Animal...
fact a bird david steele is a warden here on the farn islands he's hoping to reveal to me who's responsible for engineering this subterranean world oh nope nothing in that one
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Cute Baby Puffin Sees...
Steele is a warden here on the far nylund's he's hoping to reveal to me who's responsible for engineering this subterranean world yes I've got one here
Video examples
How we can make crops...
They tend to be small, very attractive, but they hold onto their water at such great cost that they grow extremely slowly. Examples of avoidance of water loss are found in trees and shrubs. They send down very deep roots, mine subterranean water supplies and just keep flushing it through them at all times,
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
I mean, maybe there's a scenario where your city on Mars doesn't need a million people, it needs half a million people and half a million robots. And that's a possibility. Maybe The Boring Company could play a role helping create some of the subterranean dwelling spaces that you might need. Yeah.
Video examples
This weird trick will...
by worm grunters and moles digging, their frequencies overlapped substantially. This was it. Over hundreds of thousands of years, these earthworms evolved a behavior that helped them escape a top predator. Aboveground, they were immune to the moles, which usually stayed subterranean.
Video examples
How North America got...
That lowers the magma's melting point and makes it rise into the overlying North American plate. From a subterranean chamber, the magma travels upwards and erupts along a chain of volcanos. Magma still deep underground slowly cools, crystallizing to form solid rock,
Video examples
Stalking the Wild...
stalking the wild neutrino was the rarest of sport the length one must code track them down nothing short of astonishing welcome to super kameoka subterranean Japanese neutrino detection chamber more than a half-mile these are
Video examples
Savitri and Satyavan:...
Again the wish was granted, and Yamraj began his descent into his subterranean kingdom. But when he glanced back, he was astounded to see the bedraggled princess stumbling along. He’d never seen such devotion to the dead,
Video examples
Volcanic eruption...
in magmastatic pressure very difficult. But volcanologists are constantly exploring new technology to conquer this rocky terrain. Advances in thermal imaging have allowed scientists to detect subterranean hotspots.
Video examples
Why are these 32 symbols...
There's something about caves -- a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in. As you pass through the portal between light and dark, you enter a subterranean world --
Video examples
Adorable Baby Animal...
fact a bird david steele is a warden here on the farn islands he's hoping to reveal to me who's responsible for engineering this subterranean world oh nope nothing in that one
Video examples
Cute Baby Puffin Sees...
Steele is a warden here on the far nylund's he's hoping to reveal to me who's responsible for engineering this subterranean world yes I've got one here
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Meghan O'Rourke
American Poet
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
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Benjamin Percy
American Novelist
My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Wayne Swan
Australian Politician
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
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Billie Joe Armstrong
American Singer
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
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Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
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Mira Sorvino
American Actress
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
Quote examples
Meghan O'Rourke
American Poet
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
Quote examples
Benjamin Percy
American Novelist
My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
Quote examples
Gore Vidal
American Novelist
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Wayne Swan
Australian Politician
It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
Quote examples
Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
Quote examples
Billie Joe Armstrong
American Singer
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
Quote examples
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Quote examples
Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
Quote examples
Mira Sorvino
American Actress
I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
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