English Explanatory Dictionary

underset

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To set under or beneath.
  2. To prop or support.
noun
  1. undercurrent (of water)

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underset.wav

Word forms

underset undersets undersetting under-set

Etymology

From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).

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