Fourscore vs Underscore - What's the difference?
fourscore | underscore |
Eighty.
* , Numbers IV:48:
* 1863 , (Abraham Lincoln), ‘Gettysburg Address’:
* 1914 , (Saki), ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts :
An underline; a line drawn or printed beneath text; the character .
(music) A piece of background music.
To underline; to mark a line beneath text.
To emphasize or draw attention to.
As a numeral fourscore
is eighty.As a noun underscore is
an underline; a line drawn or printed beneath text; the character.As a verb underscore is
to underline; to mark a line beneath text.fourscore
English
Numeral
(head)- Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore .
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.
underscore
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(underscor)- I wish to underscore the importance of proper formatting.