Definitions for underlay

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underlay un·der·lay

Spelling: [verb uhn-der-ley; noun uhn-der-ley]

IPA: /verb ˌʌn dərˈleɪ; noun ˈʌn dərˌleɪ/

Underlay is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 357 anagrams from letters in underlay (adelnruy).

Definitions for underlay

noun

1. something underlaid.
2. Printing. a piece or pieces of paper put under type or cuts to bring them to the proper height for printing.

verb (used with object)

1. to lay under or beneath.
2. to provide with something laid underneath; raise or support with something laid underneath:
3. to extend across the bottom of.
4. to lie under or beneath; be situated under.
5. to be at the basis of; form the foundation of.
6. Grammar. to function as the root morpheme or original or basic form of (a derived form): .
7. Finance. to be primary to another right or security.

Origin of underlay

before 900; Middle English underleyen, Old English underlecgan; see under-, lay¹

Examples for underlay

The notion was that it underlay existing law and must be looked for through it.

Black, in the same manner, may be intensified by an underlay of blue.

I did not then understand the despair which underlay his iron quietness.

In sprig F the underlay is of cardboard, pasted on to the linen.

He noted, but hardly considered, an older trail that underlay this one.

Reefs may go down vertically, or on a sloping “dip” or “underlay.”

Thus was paved the way for the abstractions that underlay the casino capitalism about which everybody now has nothing good to say.

In sprig C the underlay is of parchment, lightly stitched in place.

A long course of preparation, it is true, underlay that marvellous growth.

One expresses the outward fact; the other expresses that which underlay it.