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- [verb uhn-der-lahyn, uhn-der-lahyn; noun uhn-der-lahyn]
- /verb ˈʌn dərˌlaɪn, ˌʌn dərˈlaɪn; noun ˈʌn dərˌlaɪn/
- /ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪn/
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- [verb uhn-der-lahyn, uhn-der-lahyn; noun uhn-der-lahyn]
- /verb ˈʌn dərˌlaɪn, ˌʌn dərˈlaɪn; noun ˈʌn dərˌlaɪn/
Definitions of underline word
- verb with object underline to mark with a line or lines underneath; underscore. 1
- verb with object underline to indicate the importance of; emphasize, as by stressing or italicizing. 1
- noun underline Printing. a caption under an illustration. 1
- noun underline a line drawn under something; an underscore. 1
- verb underline If one thing, for example an action or an event, underlines another, it draws attention to it and emphasizes its importance. 0
- verb underline If you underline something such as a word or a sentence, you draw a line underneath it in order to make people notice it or to give it extra importance. 0
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Origin of underline
First appearance:
before 1715 One of the 49% newest English words
First recorded in 1715-25; under- + line1
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Parts of speech for Underline
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 79% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for underline
verb underline
- accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
- accentuate — To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable.
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- chalk — Chalk is a type of soft white rock. You can use small pieces of it for writing or drawing with.
- chalking — a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
noun underline
- caption — A caption is the words printed underneath a picture or cartoon which explain what it is about.
- legend — a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
- lineament — Often, lineaments. a feature or detail of a face, body, or figure, considered with respect to its outline or contour: His fine lineaments made him the very image of his father.
- lineation — an act or instance of marking with or tracing by lines.
- line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
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