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A line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)
Answer for the clue "A line drawn underneath (especially under written matter) ", 9 letters:
underline
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Word definitions for underline in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1721, "to mark underneath or below with a line," from under + line (v.). Similar formation in Dutch onderlijnen . Related: Underlined ; underlining . The noun is attested from 1888.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES stress/emphasize/underline the need for sth (= say how important it is ) ▪ He stressed the need for better training courses. underline your determination to do sth (= emphasize it ) ▪ The Prime Minister underlined his ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An underline , also called an underscore , is a more or less horizontal line immediately below a portion of writing . Single and occasionally double ("double-underscore") underlining is used in hand-written or typewritten documents as a way to emphasise ...
Usage examples of underline.
Life, is used to inexplicable underlining that turns out to be dog hairs, and apparent shifts from print to Braille where someone overdue for a forepaw nail trimming has checked my copy, but the printouts of my articles about Bobbie and Margaret, retrieved from the floor after the break-in, looked as if they had been used for paper-training.
As if to underline his words the door was pushed open and two bull terriers came darting in, going first to Marc and then to Claribel, to stand politely while she admired them and stroked their smooth heads.
Although the precise details vary, it is the common Gnostic belief that reached as far as the medieval Cathars, and which underlines the hermetic cosmology that is the basis of Western occultism, running through alchemy to the hermeticism of the Renaissance.
It underlines what is the reality of a knowledge organization: the effective work is actually done in and by teams of people of diverse knowledges and skills.
Raskolnikov finds himself is then underlined by the visit to his only friend, the warmhearted, generous, ebullient Razumikhin, who was introduced earlier and obviously serves as a contrast to the introspective, gloomy, embittered Raskolnikov.
But this merely underlines the profound gulf which separates all the ideologists of Stalinism from the ideas and traditions of Bolshevism.
Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.
The question was careless and uncaring, flicking her on the raw as it underlined the solitariness of her life.
And the diversity of the shore gleanings underlined vividly the crash of the civilization that had nourished them.
Chris was asleep, sprawled out on the deck, every rib underlined beneath his skin.
It was a hasty and haphazard experiment, but its result underlined the question in my mind.
I looked at her brief, neatly underlined in red and green, points for and against.
As if to underline his words, Liz and Cleta were shepherded politely but firmly toward another waiting police car, while a sturdy police matron approached the hysterical Sylvia, and men ran forward from a hastily summoned ambulance to lift Steve Branzell.
Chris had underlined the phrase "axonal degeneration seen on microscopic sections" and had followed it up with a series of question marks.
Littlegreen House, Market Basing, Berks], but at the same time you will naturally understand that I feel uneasy [uneasy underlined.