to underlie

Examples

• All

• Your default mode network underlies that state of mind.

  Andrew Huberman

• For the first time, I understood the emotion underlying everything he had said.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Or is there a fundamental order underlying all things?

  I.Q. (1994)

• So perhaps, though we are not aware of it, there is a pattern, an order underlying each game Go

  Pi (1998)

• There is logic underlying these deaths.

  The Raven (2012)

• So it's like we have laws of thermodynamics that underlie the use of engines.

• Teachers need to have available role models for the standards and beliefs underlying their profession.

  Academic text (1990)

• The basic principles that underlie all esteem building also apply when working with teachers.

  Academic text (1990)

• In addition to social goals, a variety of other factors may underlie children's behavioral choices.

  Academic text (1999)

• The theory that underlies quantum mechanics is complex and often counterintuitive.

Synonyms

G

to ground

vsto underlie

42 5.5

To base an idea or action on facts

refers to being the actual base or root instead of using it

U

to underly

vsto underlie

14 8.6

Be the main cause of a change or situation

has identical meaning but is spelled with an extra e

U

to underpin

vsto underlie

• Formal

14 6.3

Support an idea or argument with facts and reasons

is the basic foundation itself rather than active supporting action

U

to undergird

vsto underlie

• Formal

4 8.2

Support something from below, like beams or trust

focuses on being the base or root rather than the supporting act

R

to repose on

vsto underlie

• Formal

8.2

To depend on something as the main basis for an idea or argument

means being the basic foundation rather than a formal dependence

How Fundamental

to underlie

34 6.5

to determine

282 3.1

contributing

3.6

to relate

283 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology