Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In coal-mining, an air-course carried under a mine-road or -way by means of an air-tight box, or a passage cut through the rock or coal beneath the floor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cast under or beneath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something viewed from above through another medium, as of clouds viewed from an airplane.
- verb To allocate the parts in (a play or film) to insufficiently skilled actors.
- verb To throw under or beneath.
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Examples
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Beneath them was thick undercast, a carpet of clouds opaque to their eyes but transparent to electronic surveillance systems.
The Last Ace 2009
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Beneath them was thick undercast, a carpet of clouds opaque to their eyes but transparent to electronic surveillance systems.
The Last Ace 2009
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Eradicate No. 3 targeted the Mitsubishi factory at Nagoya, and only twenty-eight of seventy-three planes attacked the primary from above a nearly solid undercast.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Ignoring inaccurate flak between 10,000 and 12,000 feet, the wing bombed by radar through a heavy undercast.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Eradicate No. 3 targeted the Mitsubishi factory at Nagoya, and only twenty-eight of seventy-three planes attacked the primary from above a nearly solid undercast.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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In my daughter's high school production of _Twelfth Night_ (in which she totally kicked ass as Olivia), one of the best actors in the school was undercast as "Valentina" (Orsino's previous head lackey, "Valentine" in the original).
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Too bad about the Nanetta and Fenton; such lovely parts, usually a bit undercast.
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Ignoring inaccurate flak between 10,000 and 12,000 feet, the wing bombed by radar through a heavy undercast.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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David Gockley above is to be congratulated for putting on a warhorse with such care, unlike in years past when repertory staples were often undercast in San Francisco because the powers that be figured it didn't matter.
A Night at The Opera sfmike 2009
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David Gockley above is to be congratulated for putting on a warhorse with such care, unlike in years past when repertory staples were often undercast in San Francisco because the powers that be figured it didn't matter.
Archive 2009-09-01 sfmike 2009
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