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Underlined vs Underlinen - What's the difference?

underlined | underlinen |

As a verb underlined

is (underline).

As a noun underlinen is

(dated) underwear; any undergarment.

underlined

English

Verb

(head)
  • (underline)

    • 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) ----

    underlinen

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dated) underwear; any undergarment.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Mary King Waddington, title=My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Suddenly she announced her intention of becoming a nun--sold her house and lovely garden, where she had spent so many happy hours with her flowers and her birds, distributed her pretty things among her friends, and accepted all the small trials of strict convent life--no bath, nor mirror, coarse underlinen and sheets--no fire, no lights, no privacy, the regular irksome routine of a nun's life, and is perfectly happy--never misses the intellectual companionship and the refinement and daintiness of her former life,--likes the commonplace routine of the convent--the books they read to each other in "recreation," simple stories one would hardly give to a child of twelve or fourteen,--the fetes on the "mother's" birthday, when the nuns make a cake and put a wreath of roses on the mother's head. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1886, author=Thomas Hardy, title=The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In an open space before the church walked a woman with her gown-sleeves rolled up so high that the edge of her underlinen was visible, and her skirt tucked up through her pocket hole. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=P. G. Wodehouse, title=Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He did so, and I commenced to don, "Well, Jeeves," I said, reaching for the underlinen , "here we are again at Brinkley Court in the county of Worcestershire." }}