underlay

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
  2. A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
  3. Anything that is underlaid.
  4. A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing. historical
  5. Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
    — The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of underlie form-of,past
  2. To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under. transitive
  3. To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under. transitive
    — to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
  4. To put a tap on (a shoe). transitive
  5. To incline from the vertical. ambitransitive

词形变化

underlays present,singular,third-person underlaying participle,present underlaid participle,past underlaid past underlays plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English underleyen, from Old English underleċġan (“to underlay, prop, support”), equivalent to under- + lay. Cognate with Dutch onderleggen (“to lay or put under”), German unterlegen (“to underlay”), Swedish underlägga (“to underlay”).
词源 2
From Middle English underlay, underlei, equivalent to under- + lay.
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