UNDERLINE

Underline

An underline, also called an underscore, is one or more horizontal lines immediately below a portion of writing. Single and occasionally double underlining was originally used in hand-written or typewritten documents to emphasise text. In a manuscript to be typeset, various forms of underlining were conventionally used to indicate that text should be set in a special typeface such as italics to show emphasis, part of a procedure known as markup. With the advent of word processing, different typefaces can be used in the manuscript directly so that underlining is no longer needed for markup, but underlining is sometimes used in documents in its own right.

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underline

Noun

  1. A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or (in electronic documents) to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or that it acts as a hyperlink.
  2. The character ''.

Verb

  1. To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore
  2. To emphasise or stress something
  3. To influence secretly.
    By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta. — Sir H. Wotton.

Adjective

  1. Passing under a railway line.


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