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Underlie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To be located under or below.

v. To be the support or basis of; account for: Many factors underlie my decision.

v. To constitute a prior financial claim over: Dividends for preferred stock underlie those of common stock.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To lie in a position directly beneath.

v. To lie under or beneath.

v. To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.

v. To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.

v. To underlay.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under.

v. To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support.

v. To be subject or amenable to.

verb-intransitive. To lie below or under.

n. See underlay, n., 1.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See underlye.

To lie in a position directly beneath.

To lie under or beneath; be situated under; specifically, in geology, to occupy a lower position than, or to pass beneath: said of stratified rocks over which other rocks are spread out.

To be at the basis of; form the foundation of.

To lie under, in a figurative sense; be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or a challenge.

n. In mining, same as underlay, 1.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. be or form the base for

v. lie underneath

Word Usage

"He calls it the "underlying principles" approach, which in his words, "discern [s] from the text the deeper underlying principles that underlie is particular injunctions.""

Verb Form

underlain underlay underlied underlies underlying

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

be lie

Variant

underlying underlain underlay

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

support

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Ai Alai Ally Bi Bligh