underlay
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Synonyms: underway, underplay, underlap, undersay, underly, underpay, underclay, under way, undersky, undercry, underlit
Antonyms: underway, underplay, underlap, undersay, underly, underpay, underclay, under way, undersky, undercry, underlit
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Verb
- simple past of underlie
Verb
- To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
- We underlaid the carpet with felt.
- To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
- to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
- To put a tap on (a shoe).
- To incline from the vertical.
Noun
- A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
- A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
- Anything that is underlaid.
- A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
- The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
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