undertime
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (verb)
- (nouns)
- Hyphenation: un‧der‧time
- Rhymes: -aɪm, -ʌndə(ɹ)taɪm
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
undertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)
- (transitive) To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
- (transitive, photography) To underexpose.
Etymology 2 edit
under- + time, based on overtime.
Noun edit
undertime (uncountable)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
undertime
- (obsolete) The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:
- He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.