underline

Examples

• All

• In my notes, I always use an underline to highlight key concepts for easier revision.

• You know how to change the color of your fonts, how to remove the underline, and that sort of thing.

  Blog text (29)

• I found my father's name highlighted in blue with the underline and the Mickey Mouse hand.

  Blog text (1)

• Inside each page were hundreds of little blue words with little blue underlines that made my black triangle turn into a Mickey Mouse hand.

  Blog text (1)

• The green underlining doesn't say what the underline indicates, so sometimes I get confused.

  Academic text (2014)

• She continued to talk, to write, circling numbers and emphasizing certain words with careful underlines.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The teacher asked us to write the important terms with an underline to help us study.

Synonyms

U

to underscore

vsunderline

1 4.7

To draw a line under a word to show it is important

is the noun for the actual line beneath text used to mark importance

U

underlining

vsunderline

• Specialized

2.7

Drawing a line under words to make them stand out

is the simple line drawn beneath a word to indicate importance

U

underbar

vsunderline

• Specialized

7.6

A thin line placed under words to make them stand out or divide parts

is mainly for stressing importance rather than serving as a design separator

How Emphatic

to highlight

340 3.3

to bold

4 2.7

underline

1 2.1

italic

2 3.8

Surface Forms

Etymology