underlay

Meaning of underlay

verb
  1. To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
  2. To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
    to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
  3. To put a tap on (a shoe).
  4. (of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
verb
  1. To lie in a position directly beneath.
  2. To lie under or beneath.
    A stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
  3. To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
    a doctrine underlying a theory
  4. To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.
  5. To underlay.
noun
  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. A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
  5. 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.

Information about underlay

  • The plural form of underlay is: underlays.
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Hyphenation of underlay

un-der-lay

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • underlay is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

underlay synonyms

Meaning carpet pad:

underlayment

Meaning :

hade

Anagrams of underlay

Dunleary

Words that rhyme with underlay

Farlay, parlay, cloverlay, interlay, overlay, summerlay, superlay, Thorlay, forlay

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