underlays

Meaning of underlays

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 underlays

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of underlays is: underlay.
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Hyphenation of underlays

un-der-lays

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • underlays is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with underlays

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