underlay
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Is underlay a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of underlay?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.transitive
2. (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.Examples: "to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing"transitive
3. (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).transitive
4. (mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.Synonyms: hadeambitransitive
noun (English)
1. (printing, historical) A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.historical
2. (music) Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.Examples: "The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript."
Definition source: Wiktionary