「To understate.」のEnglishの単語
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- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut away the underpart of
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
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- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- A blow dealt upward.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
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- Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
- (sometimes proscribed) Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.
- (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
- (colloquial) Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
- Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
- With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
- in a literal sense
- (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration
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- (transitive) To make something seem less important than it really is.
- (transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
- (transitive) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
- play a card lower than (a held high card)
- act (a role) with great restraint
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- (figuratively) To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
- (figuratively) To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
- To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
- play down or obscure
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verb
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make something seem less important than it really is.
- (transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
- (transitive) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
- play a card lower than (a held high card)
- act (a role) with great restraint
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verb
verb
noun
verb
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- cut away the underpart of
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
adj
noun
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- A blow dealt upward.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
verb
verb
- (figuratively) To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
- (figuratively) To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
- To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
- play down or obscure
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adj
noun
verb
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- Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
- (sometimes proscribed) Used as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.
- (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
- (colloquial) Used as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
- Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
- With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
- in a literal sense
- (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration