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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
underline
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 determination to keep interest rates high.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ But it has also underlined the absence of any equivalent increase in their political weight.
▪ He also underlines further the riskiness of the Yamamoto plan, pointing to the high vulnerability of carriers to air attack.
▪ The Plan stresses that point and also underlines the need to make sure that minority ethnic groups are catered for.
▪ We also underline the importance of an early entry into force and implementation of the Treaty on Open Skies. 13.
▪ But it also underlines the impossibility, so far, of achieving one.
▪ It has also underlined the urgent need for sufficient Government funds to pay for a massive recovery programme.
▪ It also underlines one of the main reasons why community education did not become a radical movement for social change.
▪ But they also underlined the welcome return to a more activist approach.
further
▪ Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage, news of which she now shared with Taheb.
▪ He also underlines further the riskiness of the Yamamoto plan, pointing to the high vulnerability of carriers to air attack.
▪ The trend is further underlined by the relative size of the companies acquired.
▪ Their vulnerability was further underlined by the lack of locks on the bathroom doors.
how
▪ It took the Balkan crises of the 90s and their transatlantic tensions to underline how urgent it was.
▪ That may have been misplaced optimism, but it underlines how clearly the battle-lines are drawn.
▪ It has underlined how tricky is the interpretation of the level playing field.
■ NOUN
commitment
▪ The £4,000 million Action for Cities programme underlines the Conservative commitment to our inner cities and the people who live there.
▪ Mr. Marshall Does not that figure underline the Government's commitment to the coal mining industry?
▪ His appointment underlines the commitment with which harmonisation of relationships is being sought amongst those at Lord's.
▪ It underlines the commitment by consumers to pay off debts incurred during the credit binge of the late-Eighties.
fact
▪ A debate would present a good opportunity to underline the fact that many countries are experiencing far more difficulties than we are.
▪ The kid is dynamite and a new five-year deal and a £7million price tag only serve to underline the fact.
▪ Henry was wasting his time and, as if to underline this fact, he glanced at the clock tower.
▪ It underlines the fact that history is about real people.
▪ The fact that he scored 20 of his team's 48 league goals last season underlines that fact.
▪ This underlines the fact that tourism is a major source of income for the area and its 50,000 residents.
▪ The fact that it is costly merely underlines the fact that sustainable development is costly.
importance
▪ That underlines the importance of the construction industry training board.
▪ We also underline the importance of an early entry into force and implementation of the Treaty on Open Skies. 13.
▪ This paper underlines the importance of maintaining a functional health care system even during times of political change and unrest.
▪ We underline the importance of human contacts in overcoming the legacy of old divisions. 15.
▪ It underlines the importance of accuracy.
▪ Fforde also establishes an important point by underlining the importance of land reform to late Victorian and Edwardian debates.
▪ But the inspectorate is prosecuting to underline the importance that it attaches to nuclear workers following proper procedures.
▪ The Hayward case underlines the importance of the way in which the story is presented to the public.
need
▪ Highlighting the railways' poor financial performance in recent years, it underlined the need for extra investment during 1998-99.
▪ The Plan stresses that point and also underlines the need to make sure that minority ethnic groups are catered for.
▪ I shall not add to what they have said, but it underlines the need for a rethink.
▪ It underlines the need to adopt methods appropriate to the group which is to be reached.
▪ But the research underlines the urgent need for a more radical shake-up of student support.
▪ It has also underlined the urgent need for sufficient Government funds to pay for a massive recovery programme.
▪ However simple-minded the above example may appear, it underlines the need for caution in examining the results of statistical computations.
▪ Such bickering underlines the need to establish procedural guidelines.
point
▪ The gathering in Washington this week of Republican governors, who run 31 of the 50 states, underlined the point.
▪ It's worth underlining this point.
▪ Meanwhile - and he crossed his arms as it to underline the point - nobody gets in and nobody gets out.
▪ This underlines an important point about these tournaments.
▪ The following section underlines the point.
▪ Works of art are not a high priority in most people's lives; a recession soon underlines this point!
▪ A brief review of the history of the profiling and records of achievement movement will serve to underline this point.
word
▪ You could even underline key phrases or words in your speech notes.
▪ He had marked passages in pencil and underlined words that he did not understand so that he could look them up.
■ VERB
serve
▪ This success serves to underline Johnson Matthey's pioneering research and development activities and our commitment to innovation.
▪ Much of the film is subtitled, but this only serves to underline the alien nature of the cruel Siberian prison landscape.
▪ In short, the deposition only serves to underline the limitations of ecclesiastical initiative and power in politics.
▪ The kid is dynamite and a new five-year deal and a £7million price tag only serve to underline the fact.
▪ Occasionally they are referred to hospitals, but the treatment they receive sometimes serves only to underline their isolation.
▪ A brief review of the history of the profiling and records of achievement movement will serve to underline this point.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the mistakes had been underlined in red ink.
▪ Don't forget to underline the title of the essay.
▪ The recent shootings underline the need for more security.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As in Boston, this underlined the extent to which students' prior academic preparation needed to be strengthened.
▪ But Whitehall sources dismissed the call and underlined Sir Patrick's own categorical statement.
▪ Depending on your computer, underlined characters may appear on the screen underlined, in color, or in reverse video.
▪ First, I want to underline the arbitrary nature of any attempt to dichotomize self-strategies into two genders.
▪ The fact that he scored 20 of his team's 48 league goals last season underlines that fact.
▪ These questions underline the real issues to be faced by all the interested parties involved in privatisation.
▪ While there is undoubtedly a demand for more golf courses, it needs to be underlined that many applications are purely speculative.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underline

Underline \Un`der*line"\, v. t.

  1. To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

  2. To influence secretly. [Obs.]
    --Sir H. Wotton.

  3. Emphasize or call attention to; highlight; as, Long waits at the emergency room underline the need for a larger hospital.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
underline

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.

Wiktionary
underline

  1. Passing under a railway line. n. 1 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. 2 The character '''(unsupported: _)'''. v

  2. 1 To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore 2 (context figuratively English) To emphasise or stress something

WordNet
underline

  1. n. a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter) [syn: underscore]

  2. v. give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, emphasize, emphasise]

  3. draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to [syn: underscore]

Wikipedia
Underline

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 key text.

In printed documents underlining is generally avoided, with italics or small caps often used instead, or (especially in headings) using capitalization or bold type. In a manuscript to be typeset, various forms of underlining were therefore conventionally used to indicate that text should be set in special type such as italics, part of a procedure known as markup.

Underlines are sometimes used as a diacritic, to indicate that a letter has a different pronunciation from its non-underlined form.

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.