Crossword clues for undertow
undertow
- Hidden water menace
- An inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling
- The seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
- Swimmer's bane
- Swimming hazard
- Swimmer's hazard
- Movement of water round wet rocks
- Current name's position in town apparently
- Subsurface current
- Back-draught of a wave
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undertow \Un"der*tow`\, n. (Naut.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A short-range flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore. 2 (context by extension English) A feeling that runs contrary to one's normal one. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down. 2 (context transitive English) To pull down by, or as by, an undertow. 3 (context intransitive English) To flow or behave as an undertow.
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Wikipedia
Undertow is the first full-length and second major-label studio album release by American progressive metal band Tool, released in 1993. According to Allmusic, Undertow helped heavy metal music and progressive rock remain prominent as a mainstream musical style, and allowed several later bands to break through to the mainstream. It was released at a time when grunge was at the height of its popularity, and pop punk was slowly beginning to gather mainstream attention. AllMusic saw the album's success in the "striking, haunting visuals that complemented the album's nihilistic yet wistful mood." , Undertow has sold 2,910,000 copies in the US and been certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA.
The album was recorded between October and December 1992 at Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, and at Grandmaster Recorders, Hollywood, California, by Sylvia Massy. Some of the songs featured on the album are songs that the band decided to not release on their first EP, Opiate.
Undertow may refer to:
- Undertow (water waves), a strong undercurrent flowing in a different direction from the surface current
Undertow is a 2004 psychological thriller film directed by David Gordon Green, starring Jamie Bell, Devon Alan, Dermot Mulroney and Josh Lucas. Taking place in Georgia, the film tells the story of two boys pursued by a murderous uncle.
Undertow is Green's third feature film. Met with a mixed response from critics, the film received special recognition for excellence in filmmaking from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. In addition, Jamie Bell and Devon Alan won Young Artist Awards for their roles in the film.
Undertow is the second album by Blind Idiot God, released in 1989 through Enemy Records.
"Undertow" is the fifth episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Steve Shill. It originally aired on June 29, 2003.
Undertow was a straight edge hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington, active during the early and mid-1990s. They released material on Indecision Records, Bloodlink Records, Excursion Records and Overkill Records. Indecision Records released a comprehensive discography entitled Everything, which has 28 tracks spanning Undertow's entire active period with John Pettibone on vocals. RegHQ described them as 'founding fathers of Seattle straight edge'.
Undertow is an original video game developed by Chair Entertainment for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service.
Undertow is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by William Castle starring Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow. It is the story of an ex-con, a former Chicago mobster, who is accused of the murder of a high-ranking Chicago boss. The movie marks the second film to feature a young actor named Rock Hudson and the first in which he received a film credit for his work.
Undertow is an album by Mark Seymour and the Undertow, which was released on May 27, 2011. It is the first post- Hunters & Collectors album by Seymour that is credited to a band.
"Undertow" is the ninth episode of the American television drama series The Killing, which aired on May 22, 2011. The episode was written by Dan Nowak and was directed by Agnieszka Holland. In the episode, after their warrant for Bennet Ahmed gets quashed, the detectives question an acquaintance of his. Mayoral candidate Darren Richmond puts an end to any personal attacks on his opponent. The Larsens take justice into their own hands.
Undertow is a steel spinning roller coaster at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. , The ride was built by Maurer Söhne and is the only spinning roller coaster in Northern California.
Undertow in water waves is a current that is physically experienced as the off-shore pull that a person feels when they are standing in the water within the breaking-wave zone near a beach. People feel this current most strongly near their feet, as each breaking wave advances towards them.
In physical oceanography, undertow is defined as an under-current which is moving offshore when waves are approaching a shore. Undertow is a necessary and universal feature; it is a return flow which compensates for the onshore-directed flow in the zone above the wave troughs. The undertow's flow velocities are generally strongest in the surf zone, where the water is shallow and the waves are high (due to shoaling).
In popular usage, the word "undertow" is often misapplied to rip currents. An undertow occurs everywhere undeneath shore-approaching waves, whereas in contrast, rip currents are localized narrow offshore currents occurring at certain locations along the coast. Unlike undertow, rip currents are strong at the surface.
Undertow is a 2009 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Javier Fuentes-León and marks his directorial long-feature debut. Initial financing came from Germany and France with additional financing from Peru. The film shot in Cabo Blanco, Peru, won the World Cinema Audience Award in the Dramatic category at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S.A. Other Audience Awards included Cartagena, Montreal, Miami, Chicago, Utrecht, Lima, and Galway, as well as Jury Awards in Madrid, San Francisco, Seattle, Toulouse, and Philadelphia. It received a nomination as Best Latin American Film at the 2011 Goya Awards in Spain.
The film was also selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist.
"Undertow" is a song by the American indie rock band Warpaint. It is the third track and lead single from the band's debut studio album The Fool, and was released on September 21, 2010 on Rough Trade Records. Described by the band as an homage to the Nirvana song " Polly", "Undertow" received favorable acclaim and placed in the United Kingdom's Independent Singles and Independent Breakers charts upon its release. A limited edition double A-side single was released as part of Record Store Day 2012.
Describing the origins of the song, bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg said "Undertow" developed from a bassline she and guitarist Theresa Wayman were working on. According to Lindberg, "[Wayman] just started singing the lyrics to 'Polly' over that song … instead of making that a cover … we said, 'well, write your own words to the song'." Lindberg added that if "you listen to the songs back-to-back they sound nothing alike" but referred to "Undertow" as "a bit of an homage to [[Kurt Cobain|Kurt [Cobain] ]] and Nirvana." A music video for "Undertow" was directed by Lindberg's sister and former Warpaint drummer Shannyn Sossamon.
Undertow is a 1930 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. and Winifred Reeve. The film stars Mary Nolan, Johnny Mack Brown, Robert Ellis, Churchill Ross and Audrey Ferris. The film was released in March 1930, by Universal Pictures.
Usage examples of "undertow".
For all its black slapstick, however, the genre has a plangent undertow.
From the wine riddler who turns the bottles in their cradles, to the wine pourer who allows credulous monkeys to taste little dollops prior to their purchase, to the sommelier who makes diners feel inadequate to the task of selecting their drinks, to the critic who compares the slight hint of chocolate to the subtle undertow of citrus and nutmeg, the field of wine is full of grapes.
Even as these very waves thou beholdest have each his back-wash or undertow, so followeth after every sending an undertow of evil hap, whereby, albeit in essence a less deadly thing, many have been drowned and washed away who stood unremoved against the main stroke of the breaker.
There was a force that pulled on him as violently as that time when as a child he had been caught in the undertow at Rehoboth Beach.
Not only was he ready to lead a crew of rescuers to succor the perishing, fearlessly directing the surfboat in its plunge through a seething tide, but many a time he had dashed bodily into the breakers, despite the hazard of a powerful undertow, and dragged some drowning creature to a place of safety.
It was what had driven her out onto the terrace, to sit and think about the undertow at Windflaw Point.
He and a friend were standing in water just over their waists off Cabo San Lucas when the undertow got them.
Baptist zeal, Methodist self-satisfaction, Presbyterian Scots certainty about everything, Anglican social superiority, and a horde of evangelists and back-street messiahs to suit every taste, as well as an undertow of prohibitionists, anti-tobacco crusaders, and warriors against prostitution, who were linked with the churches though not actually a part of them, seemed to dominate the mores of the city.
Sharpe was close enough to the bluffs edge to sec the French lobstermen pulling on long oars to escape the sucking undertow at the cliffs ragged base.
By catching that undertow, availing himself of its strength, he should be able to counter in a great part the forces seeking to drive him back against the shore.
Invisible to his naked eye, even in this transfigured state, the dense gravitational vortex pulled on him like an undertow, so that Picard found himself leaning forward to counter its attractive force.
To remain at the front of the wave would be to body-surf a vicious breaker onto the beach, undertow and all.
To the right were the three floors occupied by those interred in life, where the gasp of the undertow at the cliffs and the prayers and canticles of the canonical hours almost never penetrated.
Before the undertow could take hold and tug them back, he and Spock jumped out into knee-deep water and caught the mooring cords, beaching the inflatable out of reach of the salty fingers of breakers rolling in and foaming on the shore.
Their frequency excited alarm among the timid, since the undertow at Ellston was not strong, and since there were known to be no sharks at hand.