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Underlay

verb

(past & past part. underlaid; pres. part. underlaying)

Raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type.

Put (something) under or beneath.

Provide with a base, support, lining, or backing.

noun

A pad placed under a carpet. Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment.

Underlie

verb

(past underlay; past part. underlain; pres. part. underlying)

Be or form the base for.

Lie underneath.

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"Underlay" Quotes from Famous Books

... forty-nine." And this late sunshine of popularity still further softened him. He was a bit of a porcupine to the last, still shedding darts; or rather he was to the end a bit of a schoolboy, and must still throw stones; but the essential toleration that underlay his disputatiousness, and the kindness that made of him a tender sick-nurse and a generous helper, shone more conspicuously through. A new pleasure had come to him; and as with all sound natures, he was bettered ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... of all, however, in many respects, was the revelation of the amazingly complete system of drainage with which the palace was provided. The gradient of the hill which underlay the domestic quarter of the building enabled the architect to arrange for a drainage system on a scale of completeness which is not only unparalleled in ancient times, but which it would be hard to match in Europe until a period as late as the middle of the nineteenth century of our era. ...

— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie

... 17). The contrasts which he draws between things said to them of old and his new teachings (Matt. v. 21-48) look at first much like a doing away of the old. Jesus did not so conceive them. He rather thought of them as fresh statements of the idea which underlay the old; they fulfilled the old by realizing more fully that which it had set before an earlier generation. He was the most radical teacher the men of his day could conceive, but his work was clearing rubbish away from the roots of venerable truth that it might bear fruit, rather ...

— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees

... grotesque, novel aspect, that this slowly elaborating biological scheme had something more than an academic interest for herself. And not only so, but that it was after all, a more systematic and particular method of examining just the same questions that underlay the discussions of the Fabian Society, the talk of the West Central Arts Club, the chatter of the studios and the deep, the bottomless discussions of the simple-life homes. It was the same Bios whose nature and drift and ways and methods and aspects ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... the most common methods is to underlay a melody with what E. M. Wickes, [1] one of the keenest popular song critics of today, calls the "internal vamp." This is the keeping of a melody so closely within its possible octave that the variations play around ...

— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

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