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Bold vs Underline - What's the difference?

bold | underline |

In obsolete terms the difference between bold and underline

is that bold is a dwelling; habitation; building while underline is to influence secretly.

bold

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

    Adjective

    (boldness) (er)
  • Courageous, daring.
  • *, chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  • (of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  • Presumptuous.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 9.
  • even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
    Synonyms
    * (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a font or some text) bold.
  • (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To become bold.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    underline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or (in electronic documents) to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or that it acts as a hyperlink.
  • The character .
  • Verb

    (underlin)
  • To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore
  • (figuratively) To emphasise or stress something
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}
  • (obsolete) To influence secretly.
  • By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta. — Sir H. Wotton.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Passing under a railway line.
  • * 1950 , Leonora Fry, C. W. Huxtable, Get to know: British railways (page 26)
  • Just as it was sometimes necessary to lower the road to take it beneath an underline bridge, so in this case it might be necessary to raise it.

    See also

    * (wikipedia) (typography marks) ----