Underground vs. Basement — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Underground and Basement
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Underground
Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth
Underground caverns.
Underground missile sites.
Basement
A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the boiler, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such as the electrical distribution system and cable television distribution point.
Underground
Hidden or concealed; clandestine
Underground resistance to the tyrant.
Basement
The floor of a building which is partly or entirely below ground level
A basement flat
They went down the stairs into the basement
Underground
Of or relating to an organization involved in secret or illegal activity
Underground trade in weapons.
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Basement
The substructure or foundation of a building.
Underground
Of or relating to an avant-garde movement or its films, publications, and art, usually privately produced and of special appeal and often concerned with social or artistic experiment.
Basement
The lowest habitable story of a building, usually below ground level.
Underground
A clandestine, often nationalist, organization fostering or planning hostile activities against, or the overthrow of, a government in power, such as an occupying military government
"an underground of dissident intellectuals" (Kenneth L. Woodward).
Basement
A complex of undifferentiated igneous and metamorphic rocks underlying sedimentary strata.
Underground
Chiefly British A subway system.
Basement
(Slang) The last place or lowest level, as in competitive standings.
Underground
An avant-garde movement or publication.
Basement
Chiefly New England A public toilet, especially one in a school.
Underground
Below the surface of the earth.
Basement
A floor of a building below ground level.
Underground
In secret; stealthily.
Basement
(geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
Underground
To situate under the ground
Workers undergrounding telephone lines.
Basement
Last place in a sports conference standings.
Underground
(not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.
Basement
The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
Underground
(figurative) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
These criminals operate through an underground network.
Basement
The ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
Underground
Outside the mainstream, especially unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
Underground music
Underground
Below the ground.
The tunnel goes underground at this point.
Underground
Secretly.
Underground
(geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
Underground
Syn of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
London Underground
Underground
A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
The French underground during World War II
Underground
A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
Underground
To route electricity distribution cables underground.
Underground
The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
A spirit raised from depth of underground.
Underground
A subway or subway system, especially in the United Kingdom.
Underground
A secret organization opposed to the prevailing government; as, the French underground during the Nazi occupation.
Underground
A group or movement holding unorthodox views in an environment where conventional ideas dominate, as in artistic circles.
Underground
Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
Underground
Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
Underground
Beneath the surface of the earth.
Underground
A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
Underground
Electric underground railway
Underground
Under the level of the ground;
Belowground storage areas
Underground caverns
Underground
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
Clandestine intelligence operations
Cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
Hole-and-corner intrigue
Secret missions
A secret agent
Secret sales of arms
Surreptitious mobilization of troops
An undercover investigation
Underground resistance
Underground
Used of independent armed resistance forces;
Guerrilla warfare
Partisan forces
Underground
In or into hiding or secret operation;
The organization was driven underground
Underground
Beneath the surface of the earth;
Water flowing underground
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