Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To lay beneath; to put under.
- 2transitive verb
To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay., 2.
- 3noun
To put a tap on (a shoe).
- 4intransitive verb
To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
- 5noun
The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
a pad placed under a carpet
Synonyms
- 8verb
provide with a base, support, lining, or backing
"underlay the boards with joists"
- 9verb
put (something) under or beneath
"They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper"
- 10verb
raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type
"underlay the plate"
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