What is the difference between underlay and underlie?
underlay | underlie |
(underlie)
To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
To put a tap on (a shoe).
To incline from the vertical; to hade.
A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
Anything that is underlaid
(music) Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
To lie in a position directly beneath.
To lie under or beneath.
To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
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, title= To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.
* Sir Walter Scott
(mining) To underlay.
In transitive terms the difference between underlay and underlie
is that underlay is to put a tap on (a shoe) while underlie is to be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.As verbs the difference between underlay and underlie
is that underlay is simple past of underlie while underlie is to lie in a position directly beneath.As a noun underlay
is a layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.underlay
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Verb
(head)Verb
- to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
Noun
(en noun)- The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
underlie
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Alternative forms
* underlyVerb
- A stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
- a doctrine underlying a theory
Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
- The knight of Ivanhoe underlies the challenge of Brian der Bois Guilbert.