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单词 underlie
释义 underlie
I. \| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ verb
Etymology: Middle English underliggen, underligen, underlien, from Old English underlicgan, from under (I) + licgan to lie — more at lie
transitive verb
1.
 a. obsolete : to submit to the will or direction of
 b. obsolete : to undergo the infliction of (a penalty or judgment)
 c. Scotland : to surrender oneself to (law)
 d. obsolete : to assume the expense of or responsibility for
2. : to lie or be situated under
 < shale underlies the coal >
 < delta underlain by a clay bed >
 < granite on the outside underlain with basalt — Science >
3. : to be at the basis of : form the foundation of : support
 < political ideas underlying the revolution >
 < law of gravitation and his equations of motion apply to and underlie immense realms of physical experience — Julian Huxley >
4. : to lie concealed beneath the obvious exterior of
 < the human and personal actualities that underlie the impersonality of justice — F.R.Leavis >
 < probe the mysterious causality that may underlie chance — H.C.Webster >
5. : to exist as a claim or security superior and prior to (another)
 < a first mortgage underlies a second >
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : to lie in the grave
2. Britain : to incline from the vertical : hade
II. \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1. Britain : slope
2. : the angle made by the center line of a stull with a line normal to the hanging wall at their point of incidence — called also underset
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