underdraw

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cover or line the underside of (a floor or roof) with plasterwork, boarding or other such treatment. transitive
    — The [roof] had never been underdrawn, its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes, and clusters of legs of beef, mutton and ham, concealed it.
  2. To take or draw less than one needs or is entitled to.
    — You say for month and months you had been underdrawing? — Always underdrawing and giving up every month. Whatever we drew the officer signed an indent for and we gave up a surplus.
  3. To represent inadequately in an artistic depiction, or in words. transitive
  4. To sketch a work of art in chalk, pencil, or other temporary medium prior to painting, inking, or otherwise making the final work.
    — Here was the warrant (or at least a justification) not just for Steig's drawings of people as bodily symptoms but, more important, for his abandoning underdrawing in pencil prepartory to inking in a drawing.

词形变化

underdraws present,singular,third-person underdrawing participle,present underdrew past underdrawn participle,past

词源

From Middle English underdrawen, equivalent to under- + draw.
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