| 单词 | underlying |
| 释义 | underlying /un"deuhr luy'ing/, adj. 1. lying or situated beneath, as a substratum. 2. fundamental; basic: the underlying cause of their discontent. 3. implicit; discoverable only by close scrutiny or analysis: an underlying seriousness in his witticisms. 4. (of a claim, mortgage, etc.) taking precedence; anterior; prior. 5. Ling. belonging to an earlier stage in the transformational derivation of a sentence or other structure; belonging to the deep structure. [1605-15; UNDERLIE + -ING2] |
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