underlay
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʌndəɹˈleɪ/
- simple past tense of underlie
underlay (underlays, present participle underlaying; past and past participle underlaid)
- (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
- (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
- to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
- (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
- (mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
- Synonyms: hade
- IPA: /ˈʌndəɹˌleɪ/
underlay (plural underlays)
- A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
- A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
- Anything that is underlaid.
- (printing, historical) A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- (music) Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
- The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
- French: sous-couche
- Russian: подсти́лка
- Russian: подсти́лка
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