undercarriage

noun

Definition of undercarriagenext
as in floor

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Recent Examples of undercarriage The man was propelled into the outside lane and struck by the undercarriage of a second vehicle, a 2013 Nissan Cube driven by a 47-year-old Orlando man. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026 Cleaning the tires, wheels and undercarriage of your vehicle. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2026 Jersey joins a collection of adventurous animals, including a 6-week-old kitten named Beemer who survived a 250-mile trip in the undercarriage of a BMW from Boston to New Jersey. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026 Dedicate one for the car or tuck one in the undercarriage of your stroller and you’ll never be caught off guard by an unexpectedly chilly morning. — Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for undercarriage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undercarriage
  1. floor
  2. foot
  3. seat
  4. base
  5. underside
  6. underpinning
  7. ground
Noun
  • There is accumulation of food and residue on the floors under the prep line equipment.
    — NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • This affects the product fit cycle, from shoe development to the retail fitting floor.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of floor
Noun
  • For developers managing a mix of AC and DC loads, Inam says the device collapses a number of machines—including a rectifier, an inverter, backup power and energy management—into a single unit four feet square and 12 feet high.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Aetrex’s Wear Tester software uses AI to compare 3D scans of potential candidates against millions of foot profiles in its global database.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of foot
Noun
  • The supplier will still need to complete development, testing and certification before the seats enter production.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For a company increasingly focused on taking humans out of the driver’s seat, the Roadster reminds us that driving can still be part of the attraction.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of seat
Noun
  • Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The entry-level system for this 16-inch AI workstation is outfitted with Nvidia’s base-model 18-core RTX Spark N1X chip, which uses the 18-core Grace CPU processor, and its Blackwell GPU with 5,120 CUDA cores.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of base
Noun
  • Storyteller Overland Storyteller also enhances the rear’s role as a storage garage, adding MOLLE-style organizational panels to the underside of the bed.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The right temple features a multipurpose rocker and action button on the underside, near the hinge, with an additional button on the top side.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of underside
Noun
  • These findings, if confirmed, could explain the biological underpinnings behind why treating prenatal depression is so critical.
    — Catherine Demers, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But their emergence also underscores how much psychiatry still needs to learn about the biological underpinnings of depression and why patients respond differently to treatment.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of underpinning
Noun
  • Expect Raman, whom City Hall opponents have long trashed as conflict-averse, to focus on a message of possibility and positivity while holding her ground and striking back — and hard — when necessary.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • For now, PhoneBot has no arms, and its walking was trained only on flat ground.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of ground

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“Undercarriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undercarriage. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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