What is the difference between underscore and underline?
underscore | underline |
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.
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 nouns the difference between underscore and underline
is that underscore is an underline; a line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _ while 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 verbs the difference between underscore and underline
is that underscore is to underline; to mark a line beneath text while underline is to draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore.As an adjective underline is
passing under a railway line.underscore
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(underscor)- I wish to underscore the importance of proper formatting.
See also
* underbar (typography marks)underline
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(underlin)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.}}
- 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.