undercurrent's Usage Examples:

If you're swimming in open water and become caught in an undercurrent, attempt to swim parallel to the shore as this will give you a better chance to escape the current.

Your guests should not have to fight the music to have a conversation in fact the music should enhance the conversation by being a pleasant and enjoyable undercurrent.

But as all who knew him admit, and as his own records testify, notwithstanding an undercurrent of shrewd common sense, he was the creature, almost the sport, of impulse; his impressions and purposes changed with the speed of lightning; anger often mastered him; he went very often by intuitions and inspirations rather than by cool Authorities.- The Journals of Major-General Gordon at Khartoum (1885); Lord Cromer, Modern Egypt (2 vols., 1908); F.

Hence a strong surface current sets inwards through the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb and Gibraltar, while an undercurrent flows outwards, raising the temperature and salinity of the ocean for a long distance beyond the straits.

The sinkingdown occurs in the Kattegat when the inflowing Atlantic water enters the Baltic as an undercurrent which is both warmer and denser than that on the surface.

The inflowing Baltic undercurrent carries with it herrings and other fish from the North Sea outside, and the submarine current entering the Barents Sea also carries with it such fish as plaice.

The "North Sea" water, of 34 to 35 pro male salinity, does not appear at the surface in the Skagerrak, except as a strip along part of the coast of Jutland, but it is always found as an undercurrent overlying the oceanic water.

It was a subtle shift, an undercurrent of cool energy that brushed by him, like when Sofi used her voodoo fortune-telling powers around him.

And yet, there is all through an undercurrent which runs hard against his surface verdicts, and here and there comes to expression.

The Undercurrent of Modern Realism.

Synonyms:

substance, meaning, undertone,

Antonyms:

high tide, flood tide, ebbtide, low tide,