Underlay

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To put (one thing) under another.
  • v. To provide with a base or support.
  • v. Printing To raise or support (the level of a bed) by inserting a piece of paper or other material under the type.
  • n. Something, such as felt under a carpet, that is underlaid. Also called underlayment.
  • n. Printing Paper or other material used to underlay.
  • v. Past tense of underlie.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past of underlie.
  • v. To lay something underneath something else
  • v. To provide a support for something
  • n. A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
  • n. A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
  • n. Anything that is underlaid
  • n. Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lay beneath; to put under.
  • v. To raise or support by something laid under. See Underlay, n., 2.
  • v. To put a tap on (a shoe).
  • verb-intransitive. To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
  • n. The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
  • n. A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the form, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lay beneath; put under; specifically, in printing, to reinforce with underlays.
  • To support by laying something under.
  • In mining, to incline from the perpendicular; hade: said of a vein. See the noun.
  • n. In mining, same as hade.
  • n. In printing, a bit or bits of paper put under types or a plate to make them of proper height for receiving a good impression.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. put (something) under or beneath
  • n. a pad placed under a carpet
  • v. raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type
  • v. provide with a base, support, lining, or backing
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    position    pose    put    set    lay    place    elevate    raise    bring up    getup   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    underlaid    underlie   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hade   
    Verb Stem
    underlie