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Definition: Underpass |
UnderpassNoun1. An underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: UnderpassSynonym: subway (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Underpass |
| English words defined with "underpass": grade separation. (references) |
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Screenplays | I was sitting under the Jones Street underpass yesterday (The Maxx; writing credit: Sam Kieth; Bill Messner-Loebs) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Downstream side of Arlington Memorial Bridge, looking westward. Boundary Channel Bridge in left background. Parkway underpass and parkway approach in right foreground. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Underpass at Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Underpass. Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Underpass, Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | An underpass being constructed at Berwyn, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Looking up northbound underpass steps. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Takoma Park. Underpass, Takoma Park. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Railroad underpass and tunnel in city. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bridge Underpass" by raznov Commentary: "Underside perspective shot of a bridge underpass in downtown Tampa, FL." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Business | Of these, 13 were completed last year. By the end of this year, some of the major projects that will be completed include the extension of Boon Lay Way, the widening of the Pan Island Expressway, and the Crawford Street underpass. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Underpass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Underpass" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "underpass": pedestrian underpass ♦ railroad underpass. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
underpass | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "underpass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tonel. (various references) | |
Arabic | طريق تحتية, المجاز السفلي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | подлез (subway). (various references) | |
Chinese | 地下过道. (various references) | |
Czech | podjezd, podchod (subway). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسیرجاده درزیرپل هواءی , زیرین راه , جاده زیرجاده دیگری . (various references) | |
Finnish | alikäytävä (subway). (various references) | |
French | souterrain (underground), passage souterrain. (various references) | |
German | Unterführung (subway, tunnel). (various references) | |
Greek | κατώγι σιδηροδρόμου, κατώγι δρόμου, υπόγεια διάβαση (subway), δίοδοσ (alley, gangway, passage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | aluljáró (subway, tunnel). (various references) | |
Italian | sottopassaggio (subway). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アンザス条約 (Ancien Regime, andante, andante cantabile, andantino, angelus, antagonism, anthology, anti-, anti-establishment, antique, antique fashion, ANZUS Treaty, disliked, submarine pitch, under, under par, undercoat, underground, underhand throw, underline, underplot, underproof, underscore, undershirt, underskill, underwear, undulation, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, UNTAC, untied loan, untouchable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アンダーパス . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erpassunday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | passagem inferior (inferior transit). (various references) | |
Russian | туннель;подземный переход, подземный ход. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podvožnjak. (various references) | |
Spanish | paso inferior (inferior transit). (various references) | |
Swedish | undergång (bane, destruction, doom, downfall, fate, ruin, wreck), underfart, tunnel (sap, subway, tunnel). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeraltı geçidi (heading, underground), alt geçit (subway, underground). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "underpass": underpasses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "underpass" (pronounced u"nderpa's) |
| 4 | -er p a' s | overpass. |
| 3 | -p a' s | bypass, trespass. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: danseurs, sandspur, undrapes. | |
-2 letters: assured, asunder, danseur, panders, pausers, sanders, sendups, spaders, spreads, spurned, sundaes, sunders, suspend, undrape, undress, upsends. | |
-3 letters: anuses, arpens, aspens, aspers, assure, denars, drapes, drupes, druses, dupers, duress, nursed, nurses, padres, pander, pareus, parsed, parses, passed, passer, paused, pauser, pauses, perdus, prases, prudes, pruned, prunes, pseuds, purdas, pursed, purses. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: upwardness. | |
+2 letters: underpasses, unsurpassed. | |
+3 letters: pasturelands, prussianised, prussianized, superabounds, superhardens, upwardnesses. | |
+4 letters: underemphases, underemphasis. | |
+5 letters: gelandesprungs, predaceousness, subdepartments, superadditions, supercalenders, superinsulated, understrappers, unpreparedness. | |
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