underlying
English
Etymology
By surface analysis, underlie + -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#UNDERLYING.
Pronunciation
Adjective
underlying (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#UNDERLYINGCategory:English adjectives#UNDERLYINGCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#UNDERLYINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UNDERLYINGCategory:Pages with entries#UNDERLYINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#UNDERLYING
- (literal) lying underneath
- We dug down to the underlying rock.Category:English terms with usage examples#UNDERLYING
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- Old Yew, which graspest at the stonesCategory:English terms with quotations#UNDERLYING
That name the under-lying dead,
Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
- 1950 January, “Re-Signalling at Liverpool Lime Street Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 43:
- During the track renewals, advantage was taken to redrain the area and the old spent ballast was removed down to the underlying rock, new ballast and drains being provided throughout.Category:English terms with quotations#UNDERLYING
- 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
- Sometimes, the underlying layers are exposed by erosion, revealing the story of the rocks like an open book.Category:English terms with quotations#UNDERLYING
- basic or fundamental
- Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.Category:English terms with usage examples#UNDERLYING
- 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:
- Finding a successful treatment for Alzheimer’s faces two major hurdles: the first being we still don’t know enough about the disease’s underlying biology.Category:English terms with quotations#UNDERLYING
- 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
- The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.Category:English terms with quotations#UNDERLYING
- implicit
- Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.Category:English terms with usage examples#UNDERLYING
Usage notes
This adjective is overwhelmingly often (if not always) found in attributive rather than predicative use.
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
underlying (plural underlyings)Category:English lemmas#UNDERLYINGCategory:English nouns#UNDERLYINGCategory:English countable nouns#UNDERLYINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UNDERLYINGCategory:Pages with entries#UNDERLYINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#UNDERLYING
- (financeCategory:en:Finance#UNDERLYING) The entity from whose performance a derivative derives its value.
Related terms
Verb
underlyingCategory:English non-lemma forms#UNDERLYINGCategory:English verb forms#UNDERLYINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UNDERLYINGCategory:Pages with entries#UNDERLYINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#UNDERLYING
- present participle and gerund of underlie