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underlay (root: underlie)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun underlay has 1 sense
- underlay(n = noun.artifact) carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment - a pad placed under a carpet; Array is a kind of pad
has particulars: underfelt
Verb underlay has 3 senses
- underlay(v = verb.motion) Array - raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; "underlay the plate" is one way to bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise
- underlay(v = verb.contact) Array - put (something) under or beneath; "They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper" is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
- underlay(v = verb.consumption) Array - provide with a base, support, lining, or backing; "underlay the boards with joists" is one way to cater, ply, provide, supply
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun underlayment1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- To lay beneath; to put under. [1913 Webster]
- To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay,
n. , 2. [1913 Webster] - To put a tap on (a shoe). [1913 Webster]
underlay, v. i.
To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode. [1913 Webster]
underlay, n.
- The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also
underlie . [1913 Webster] - 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
underlay, v. & n.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -laid) lay something under (a thing) to support or raise it.
--n. a thing laid under another, esp. material laid under a carpet or mattress as protection or support.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -laid) lay something under (a thing) to support or raise it.
--n. a thing laid under another, esp. material laid under a carpet or mattress as protection or support.
underlay, past of UNDERLIE.
ROGET THESAURUS
underlay
Printing
N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.
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