underlying en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
By surface analysis, underlie + -ing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, qualifier:literal) Lying underneath.
We dug down to the underlying rock.
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:During the track renewals, advantage was taken to redrain the area and the old spent ballast was removed down to the underlying rock, new ballast and drains being provided throughout.
1950 January, “Re-Signalling at Liverpool Lime Street Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 43:Sometimes, the underlying layers are exposed by erosion, revealing the story of the rocks like an open book.
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
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(not-comparable) Basic or fundamental.
The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.
2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:Finding a successful treatment for Alzheimer’s faces two major hurdles: the first being we still don’t know enough about the disease’s underlying biology.
2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.
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(not-comparable) Implicit.
Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.
Deriveds
underlying set · underlyingness · underlying form · underlying functor · underlyingly
Translations (51)
pt implícito (implicit) · fr sous-jacent (basic or fundamental) · nl onderliggend (lying underneath) · es subyacente (implicit) · fr sous-jacent (lying underneath) · cmn 根本 (basic or fundamental) · sv underliggande (implicit) · ka ძირითადი (basic or fundamental) · bg разположен под (lying underneath) · cmn 隱含 /隐含 (implicit) · ca subjacent (implicit) · la substantialis (basic or fundamental) · fi alla oleva (lying underneath) · nl achterliggend (implicit) · da underliggende (implicit) · ca subjacent (basic or fundamental) · hu hátterében álló (implicit) · hu elemi (basic or fundamental) · fi alapuolinen (lying underneath) · sv underliggande (basic or fundamental) · de implizit (implicit) · el υποκείμενος (lying underneath) · cmn 底層 /底层 (basic or fundamental) · es agazapado (implicit) · la fundamentalis (basic or fundamental) · it basilare (basic or fundamental) · cs základní (basic or fundamental) · hu alapjául szolgáló (basic or fundamental) · bg скрит (implicit) · hu mögöttes (implicit) · hu mögötte meghúzódó (implicit) · bg съществен (basic or fundamental) · bg неясен (implicit) · cmn 基本 (basic or fundamental) · it fondamentale (basic or fundamental) · fi perus- (basic or fundamental) · es subyacente (lying underneath) · fi perustavanlaatuinen (basic or fundamental) · es implícito (implicit) · bg основен (basic or fundamental) · it implicito (implicit) · pt subjacente (implicit) · fr sous-jacent (implicit) · ca subjacent (lying underneath) · de darunterliegend (lying underneath) · it sottostante (lying underneath) · ota آشاغی (lying underneath) · el θεμελιώδης (basic or fundamental) · hu alatta/lejjebb lévő/fekvő/rejlő/húzódó/meghúzódó (lying underneath) · la subiacens (lying underneath) · hu alapvető (basic or fundamental)