Pointe vs Underline - What's the difference?
pointe | underline |
(ballet) The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
* 2007': Classical dance manages to get along without too many momentous events shuddering beneath its '''pointe work. — ''The Guardian 5th Jan 2007, p. 3
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 .
To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore
(figuratively) To emphasise or stress something
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(obsolete) To influence secretly.
Passing under a railway line.
* 1950 , Leonora Fry, C. W. Huxtable, Get to know: British railways (page 26)
As verbs the difference between pointe and underline
is that pointe is while underline is to draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore.As a noun underline is
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.As an adjective underline is
passing under a railway line.pointe
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(en noun)Verb
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- By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta. — Sir H. Wotton.
Adjective
(-)- 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.