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单词 underlayer
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underlayern.1

Etymology: < underlay v. Compare Dutch onderlegger, German unterleger.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: underˈlayer.
1. An underlying part or thing; a base or support. Obsolete.In quot. 1609 applied allusively to a woman.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > condition of being placed under > that which lies under
underlier1542
underlayer1594
underlaying1611
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. B2v The Nutmeg..is saith one Ballad..an vnderlayer to the braines.
1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor i. i Ist not some vnderlayer, some she Cammell that will beare as much of her belly, as three beastes on their backes?
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Under~layer,..(a piece of Wood to shore up any thing,) une Etaye, un Etançon.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Underlayer.., that which is laid under to bear up any thing.
2. A cobbler. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who
souterc1000
cobbler1362
botcherc1480
cozier1532
translator1594
underlayer1692
snob1785
snab1797
botch1855
clobberer1864
snobber1900
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables i. cccci. 375 How many Under~layers,..when they could not live upon their Trade, have rais'd themselves from Cobbling to Fluxing?
3. Mining. ‘A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.’
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > perpendicular
underlier1778
underlayer1850
1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 493/2 Underlayer, in mining, a perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

underlayern.2

Etymology: under- prefix1 2b(b).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈunderˌlayer.
A lower layer; a substratum.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > an underlying layer
substrature1726
substratum1730
understratum1731
litter1848
underlay1883
underlayer1896
substrate1918
1896 Daily News 15 Dec. 2/2 The carpets are of heavy velvet pile on an underlayer of elastic felt and cork.
1904 W. P. Ker Dark Ages 198 Rodulphus represents the permanent underlayer of medieval absurdity above which Gerbert rises so eminently.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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