Underlay

Quick meaning: Underlay is a verb meaning simple past of underlie.

Meaning

simple past of underlie.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
2. (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
3. (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
4. (mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
5. A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
6. A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
7. Anything that is underlaid.

Example Sentences

to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing

The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.

Word Forms

• underlays
• underlaying
• underlaid

Synonyms for underlay

Depending on context, synonyms include hade, underlayment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underlayment, origin, underlied, underlayer, underput, undergird.

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