underlay

underlay is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay beneath; to put under. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To lay beneath; to put under.
2. transitive verb. To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
3. noun. To put a tap on (a shoe).
4. intransitive verb. To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
5. noun. The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
6. noun. A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.
7. noun. a pad placed under a carpet

   Synonyms: underlayment

8. verb. provide with a base, support, lining, or backing

   "underlay the boards with joists"

9. verb. put (something) under or beneath

   "They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper"

10. verb. raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type

    "underlay the plate"

Synonyms

underlayment

Common word forms

underlays, underlayer, underlaying, underlayment

Words from these letters

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