单词 | underlie |
释义 | underlie I. transitive verb 1. a. obsolete b. obsolete c. Scotland d. obsolete 2. < shale underlies the coal > < delta underlain by a clay bed > < granite on the outside underlain with basalt — Science > 3. < 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. < 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. < a first mortgage underlies a second > intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. Britain II. 1. Britain 2. |
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