Word Meanings - UNDERSTUDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

Related words: (words related to UNDERSTUDY)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• STUDY
  1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
• EMERGENCY
  1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill. 2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• ORDERING
  Disposition; distribution; management. South.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• ORDERABLE
  Capable of being ordered; tractable. Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
• ORDERER
  1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. 2. One who gives orders.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• ORDERLESS
  Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• REFRACTOR
  Anything that refracts; specifically:
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• REDACTOR
  One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.
• MALEFACTOR
  1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• OLFACTORY
  Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part
• LACTORY
  Lactiferous. "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• TRANSACTOR
  One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
• SUBSTRACTOR
  1. One who subtracts. 2. A detractor; a slanderer. Shak.