underline

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a line drawn underneath, especially under written matter

   An underline was used to highlight important words in the student's notebook.

2. 2
   noun

   A caption beneath a photograph (which may have more than one line of text).

   Several readers [...] write to point out that the ex-Great Eastern 0-6-0s now classified as "J20" in the L.N.E.R. lists, no longer hold the supremacy for power among British 0-6-0 locomotives as suggested in the underline to the photograph of one of them which appeared on p. 100 of the March-April issue.

3. 3
   verb

   To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis.

   underline the important words in the text

4. 4
   verb

   To emphasise or stress something.

   The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

5. 5
   verb

   To influence secretly.

   By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta.

6. 6
   adj

   Passing under a railway line.

   Just as it was sometimes necessary to lower the road to take it beneath an underline bridge, so in this case it might be necessary to raise it.

7. 7
   verb

   draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to

8. 8
   verb

   give extra weight to (a communication)

Etymology

From under- + line.