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underlie
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English under licgan "to be subordinate to, to submit to;" see under + lie (v.2). Meaning "to lie under or beneath" is attested from c.1600; figurative sense of "to be the basis of" is attested from 1852 (implied in underlying ). Similar formation in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. be or form the base for lie underneath [also: underlying , underlay , underlain ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underlay \Un"der*lay`\, n. (Mining) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie . (Print.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the form, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To lie in a position directly beneath. 2 (context transitive English) To lie under or beneath. 3 (context transitive English) To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
Usage examples of underlie.
No: the change that destroys annuls the form but leaves the underlying substance: and that could not happen to anything except a compound.
The second principle which underlies all the most recent methods for extracting the grease from the wool, consists in treating the fibre with some solvent like benzol, carbon bisulphide, petroleum spirit, carbon tetrachloride, etc.
But, on the other hand, the assumption that men are unclassifiable, because practically homogeneous, which underlies modern democratic methods and all the fallacies of our equal justice, is even more alien to the Utopian mind.
Joseph de Maistre and his disciples have advocated, let us on the other hand be equally on our guard against accepting the material facts which underlie these beliefs as their deepest foundation and their exhaustive explanation.
While thus recognizing the natural origin of this consecrated symbol, while discovering that it is based on the sacredness of numbers, and this in turn on the structure and necessary relations of the human body, thus disowning the meaningless mysticism that Joseph de Maistre and his disciples have advocated, let us on the other hand be equally on our guard against accepting the material facts which underlie these beliefs as their deepest foundation and their exhaustive explanation.
While Cleggett was still wondering what significance could underlie this unusual form of matutinal exercise, Dr.
When satiric discourse represents the disturbances of culture, the metalinguistic function indicates how language embodies the underlying disorders.
He was merely asserting that the results of a deductive or experimental process could be considered accurate only if the assumptions or source material underlying that process were accurate as well, an element of scientific methodology centuries ahead of its time.
Rather, it was a lightning bolt blasting the moonscape, melting the regolith and its underlying rock, crushing the mantle, vaporizing everything within hundreds of kilometers of ground zero.
He was adrift in the Old Sea of preconsciousness, the inert and timeless realm that underlay the collective unconscious of humanity.
Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations, many of which tell lively and entertaining stories, but which, by predesign and stern publishing decree, do nothing at all to advance the underlying series concept beyond its starting point.
If interpersonal concerns underlie your procrastinating, see chapters 8, 9 and 10.
Underlying possession, procreation, drive and procurement is our sense of human individuality or ego.
This is no slight evidence that in the animal and vegetable realms the Reason-Principles are the makers and that Nature is a Reason-Principle producing a second Reason-Principle, its offspring, which, in turn, while itself, still, remaining intact, communicates something to the underlie, Matter.
A new dimension is provided to the investigator via the profiling technique, particularly in cases where the underlying motiva tion for the crime may be suddenly hidden from even the more-experienced detective.