underlay
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ʌndəɹˈleɪ/
Verb
  1. simple past tense of underlie

    underlay (underlays, present participle underlaying; past and past participle underlaid)

  2. (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
  3. (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
  4. (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
  5. (mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
    Synonyms: hade
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈʌndəɹˌleɪ/
Noun

underlay (plural underlays)

  1. A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
  2. A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
  3. Anything that is underlaid.
  4. (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.
  5. (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.
Translations Translations
  • Russian: подсти́лка



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