underline

Plural: underlines

Noun

• a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)
• A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink.
• The character _.
• An announcement of a theatrical performance to follow, placed in an advertisement for the current one.
• A caption beneath a photograph (which may have more than one line of text).

Verb

• give extra weight to (a communication)
• draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to
• To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis.
• To emphasise or stress something.
• To influence secretly.

Adj

• Passing under a railway line.

Examples

• underline the important words in the text

Synonyms

emphasise, emphasize, underscore, low line

Related Words

ampersand, asterisk and asterism, at sign, backslash, bullet, dagger, degree symbol, number sign, pipe, prime, tilde, underscore, vertical bar

Anagrams of underline