Get to know Undercarriage better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like framework or frame.
Undercarriage meaning
- The supporting structural framework of a vehicle.
- The landing gear of an aircraft.
- The genitalia.
Using Undercarriage
- The main meaning on this page is: The supporting structural framework of a vehicle. | The landing gear of an aircraft. | The genitalia.
- Useful related words include: framework, frame, framing, support.
- In the example corpus, undercarriage often appears in combinations such as: the undercarriage, undercarriage and, main undercarriage.
Context around Undercarriage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Undercarriage
- In this selection, "undercarriage" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, retractable, main, spatted, allowing, holding and bay stand out and add context to how "undercarriage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a massive undercarriage holding electronics and a retractable undercarriage to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "undercarriage" sits close to words such as aerobics, ahn and ailes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with undercarriage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This photo shows a crack in the undercarriage of a shinkansen car. (12 words)
A compressed air (later nitrogen) system was provided for emergency undercarriage lowering. (12 words)
The undercarriage and suspension probably all torn up due to the missing tire. (13 words)
The woman, Anjali Singh, was returning from work on her scooter when she was hit by a car driven by five men who, according to the police, were aware that she was caught in the car's undercarriage but did not stop. (42 words)
More than half a billion years ago, in what is today southern China, a worm resembling an ear of wheat moved along a stretch of sediment underwater, paused, and left a detailed imprint of its undercarriage in the wet earth. (40 words)
Griehl 2001, p. 37. This led to many technical innovations, such as the retractable undercarriage being discarded in favour of one of the Stuka's distinctive features, its fixed and "spatted" undercarriage. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Blackman 2007, p. 142. The impact probably broke the drag links on the main undercarriage, allowing the undercarriage to be forced backwards and damaged the wing's trailing edge.
Griehl 2001, p. 37. This led to many technical innovations, such as the retractable undercarriage being discarded in favour of one of the Stuka's distinctive features, its fixed and "spatted" undercarriage.
Pictures of the aftermath show a gaping hole in the plane's undercarriage, and a large dent where it appears the wheels had bounced up and into.
The woman, Anjali Singh, was returning from work on her scooter when she was hit by a car driven by five men who, according to the police, were aware that she was caught in the car's undercarriage but did not stop.
Washington said it was clearly a surveillance balloon with a massive undercarriage holding electronics.
A person was found alive in the undercarriage bay of an Algerian carrier’s aircraft in Paris last year.
The undercarriage and suspension probably all torn up due to the missing tire.
Whatever it takes to get the rotten armadillo corpse stink off of your cars undercarriage.
A ballistic liner protects the battery pack so drivers can take the vehicle into rugged terrain without worrying that rocks and other objects could penetrate the undercarriage.
He added that the captain or first officer would normally walk around the plane and check the undercarriage thoroughly before takeoff.
More than half a billion years ago, in what is today southern China, a worm resembling an ear of wheat moved along a stretch of sediment underwater, paused, and left a detailed imprint of its undercarriage in the wet earth.
None of them contain uncomfortably long bidet gags, or references to “pains in my undercarriage,” or a scene where Larry the Cable Guy’s talking tow truck character pees himself in public.
Every time you drive over that rut, the car bounces hard and the undercarriage scrapes the road.
This photo shows a crack in the undercarriage of a shinkansen car.
A compressed air (later nitrogen) system was provided for emergency undercarriage lowering.
Airbags can deploy due to the vehicle's undercarriage striking a low object protruding above the roadway due to the resulting deceleration.
Aviation author Edward Shacklady noted that pilot conversion was "surprisingly easy", and that the main problem encountered during training was often becoming accustomed to the Meteor's tricycle undercarriage.
Bowman 2005, p. 20. Design Overview B Mk IV nose closeup showing bombsight and clear nose, plus engine nacelles and undercarriage.
For carrier operations, the airframe, undercarriage, and tailhook were strengthened, folding wings and catapult attachments were added, and the landing gear widened.
He received the Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society for his innovative fitting of a retractable undercarriage to the aircraft.
Common combinations with undercarriage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the undercarriage 16×
- undercarriage and 7×
- main undercarriage 4×
- undercarriage to 3×
- retractable undercarriage 3×
- and undercarriage 3×
- spatted undercarriage 2×
- undercarriage but 2×
- undercarriage of 2×
- undercarriage parts 2×