Crossword clues for underwater
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 (context not comparable English) beneath the surface of the water, or of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface 2 (context nautical English) beneath the water line of a vessel 3 (context figuratively English) under water. 4 (context finance English) having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value adv. going beneath the surface of the water n. 1 underlying water or body of water, for example in an aquifer or the deep ocean 2 (context fishing English) A type of lure which lies beneath the water surface. v
(context agriculture horticulture English) to water or irrigate insufficiently
WordNet
adj. beneath the surface of the water; "submerged rocks" [syn: submerged, submersed]
growing or remaining under water; "viewing subaqueous fauna from a glass-bottomed boat"; "submerged leaves" [syn: subaqueous, subaquatic, submerged, submersed]
Wikipedia
Underwater refers to the realm below the surface of a body of water.
Underwater may also refer to:
- Underwater (band), an American band formed in the late 1990s
- "Underwater" (Mika song), a 2012 song by British singer Mika
- "Underwater" (Delerium song), a 2002 song by electronic music group Delerium
- "Underwater", a song by Circa Zero from Circus Hero
- "Underwater", a song by Switchfoot from The Legend of Chin
- Underwater (comics), by Chester Brown
- Underwater!, a 1955 movie starring Jane Russell
- In American usage, a term meaning negative equity
"Underwater" is a single by Canadian electronic music group Delerium, featuring Australian singer Rani Kamal (daughter of Kamahl) on vocals. It was the second single released from the album, Poem, and reached number nine on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the U.S.
Underwater was an Atlanta, GA based trip-hop band formed in 1996 with Jeremy Wilkins on keyboards/programming/guitar and Melissa Mileski on vocals. Both Wilkins and Mileski were previously in the Florida based ethereal-goth band, Rosewater Elizabeth. The band later added Alec Irvin on drums and keyboardist/programmer/remixer, Matthew Jeanes.
The group's first album, I Could Lose, produced by Chris Vrenna of Nine Inch Nails, was released on Risk Records in 1998. The band also released an independent single, RED., and a second full-length on their own label, sub:marine, entitled, This Is Not A Film. The band broke up in 2001 after various personal developments and tragedies. In 2007 Wilkins and Mileski temporarily reunited and released a new EP, Welcome Home, with an additional multi-instrumentalist, George Lewis III, on board.
After underwater, Wilkins went on to play with several bands, including Allegra Gellar, Hawks Do Not Share, We Are Parasols, and his solo project, bdRm. He also runs Portland, OR based No Movement Records (previously Predator Friendly Records). Mileski was married and now goes by Melissa Morrisey. She is currently in the band, Gertrude Ross, with her husband, Bryan and has collaborated with Wilkins on his bdRm project. Jeanes records and performs as Larvae. Alec Irvin began using is given last name, Yeager, and has played in several bands including Vyie and We Are Parasols.
"Underwater" is a song by singer-songwriter Mika, released as the album's third single in France, and the second single in Europe from his third studio album, The Origin of Love.
Underwater was an alternative comic book by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown that was published from 1994 until 1997, when the ambitious project was abandoned unfinished by its creator.
The story was unconventional in that it was told from the perspective of a child who is still acquiring language. The dialogue of the characters is encoded into a "language" that at first appears to be gibberish. As the child matures, the parts of the dialogue start to appear as normal, uncoded English.
The series was unpopular with readers, and Brown gave up on the series after three years, although he has said he may return to it someday.
Usage examples of "underwater".
Van Effen stabbed the button and less than two seconds later, deep and muffled like a distant underwater explosion but very unmistakable for all that - to anyone with normal hearing, the sound must have been audible up to a kilometre away - the reverberation from the detonating amatol rolled across the square.
Sunlight glancing off the slow river trembled on the stones, blurring them slightly, as if he were seeing it underwater.
Kea had seen of the longliners that hung off Earth, or the torchships that sat like so many oranges, torches underwater, out beyond the barrier.
A bluish underwater light pierced through it from the pit, vanishing when Marchpane lit the lantern on the table.
The two girls told me that when they went bathing in the sea they enjoyed mutual masturbation underwater with a little boy who was their friend.
As a parting gift for the otters who had done so much for her, she left the carcass of a small-horn buck anchored in fairly deep water near the underwater entrance to the den of the mustelids to make it difficult for other predators to rob her friends.
There are more reefs and skerries and underwater rocks and overfalls and whirlpools and tidal races in twenty miles there than in the whole of the rest of Scotland.
Craig slept for a few hours and then by the light of the paraffin lantern began modifying the oxygen equipment for use underwater.
Even though their blasters could fire underwater, the heat from the plasma bolt would instantly turn the water into steam and vapor along its path, and in a confined space might parboil the man firing it.
Great Salt Lake, which now ended miles to the west, was a big mother pluvial lake that put this spot almost a thousand feet underwater, with beaches miles to the east, up in the ramparts of the Wasatch Range.
While towed underwater he plied reamer, drench-hoses and gant-hook, and after three hours exertion, dislodged the impaction.
The town clock, which had chimed off the hours of his imprisonment here, had not tolled since nine this morning, when the little tune that preceded the striking had sounded draggy and weird, like a tune played underwater by a drowned music box.
People who spend way too much time looking at spectrograms of underwater sound.
On the bottom other crawling machines were already waiting to put the sealing forms around the junction so the special tremie, underwater setting concrete, could be poured around the ends to join them indivisibly.
Years ago, one of the Amas caught her rope in a rock underwater, and the people have talked of the accident ever since.