Underlying can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| underlying - located beneath or below | ||
| underlying - in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" | ||
| underlying - being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" | ||
Verb |
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| underlie - be or form the base for | ||
| underlie - lie underneath |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adj. | An underlying meaning. | |
| 2. | adj. | Underlying principles. | |
| 3. | adj. | I just got done looking at the underlying contract language as set forth in the pro forma service agreement in the tariff and it specifically says that the max rate would apply unless a discount or negotiated rate has been agreed to. | |
| 4. | adj. | They used the Internet too much because they had some underlying problem that also caused them to neglect their child. | |
| 5. | adj. | There is no underlying condition. | |
| 6. | verb | We should understand the underlying premises. | |
| 7. | verb | We will study the underlying molecular occurrences of fertilization. | |
| 8. | verb | We still have to solve the underlying problem. | |
| 9. | verb | The right of a state to exist is antithetical to the principle supposedly underlying liberal democracy, that people who are subject to a state's rule have the right to abolish it. | |
| 10. | verb | “We’re a city with a high rate of poverty, and that can sometimes lead to these underlying health issues because of less access to quality foods and proper healthcare,” says Mollie Pate, a gym owner and local musician. | |
| 11. | verb | Among the familiar things that he would encounter would be creatures recognizably human yet in his view grotesque. While he himself laboured under the weight of his own body, these giants would be easily striding. He would consider them very sturdy, often thick-set, folk, but he would be compelled to allow them grace of movement and even beauty of proportion. The longer he stayed with them the more beauty he would see in them, and the less complacently would he regard his own type. Some of these fantastic men and women he would find covered with fur, hirsute, or mole-velvet, revealing the underlying muscles. Others would display brown, yellow or ruddy skin, and yet others a translucent ash-green, warmed by the under-flowing blood. As a species, though we are all human, we are extremely variable in body and mind, so variable that superficially we seem to be not one species but many. | |
| 12. | verb | Knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet as it pertains to English helps understanding the underlying mechanisms of English phonology blanketed by an awkward orthography. | |
| 13. | verb | What are the underlying causes of Algeria's economic crisis? | |
| 14. | verb | What reasoning could underlie their latest decision? | |
| 15. | verb | Who knows what disagreements underlie this agreement? | |
| 16. | verb | What do you think are the problems that underlie your obsession with martyrdom? |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| An underlying meaning. |
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| Underlying principles. |
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| I just got done looking at the underlying contract language as set forth in the pro forma service agreement in the tariff and it specifically says that the max rate would apply unless a discount or negotiated rate has been agreed to. |
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| They used the Internet too much because they had some underlying problem that also caused them to neglect their child. | |
| There is no underlying condition. | |
| verb | |
| We should understand the underlying premises. | |
| We will study the underlying molecular occurrences of fertilization. | |
| We still have to solve the underlying problem. | |
| The right of a state to exist is antithetical to the principle supposedly underlying liberal democracy, that people who are subject to a state's rule have the right to abolish it. | |
| “We’re a city with a high rate of poverty, and that can sometimes lead to these underlying health issues because of less access to quality foods and proper healthcare,” says Mollie Pate, a gym owner and local musician. | |
| Among the familiar things that he would encounter would be creatures recognizably human yet in his view grotesque. While he himself laboured under the weight of his own body, these giants would be easily striding. He would consider them very sturdy, often thick-set, folk, but he would be compelled to allow them grace of movement and even beauty of proportion. The longer he stayed with them the more beauty he would see in them, and the less complacently would he regard his own type. Some of these fantastic men and women he would find covered with fur, hirsute, or mole-velvet, revealing the underlying muscles. Others would display brown, yellow or ruddy skin, and yet others a translucent ash-green, warmed by the under-flowing blood. As a species, though we are all human, we are extremely variable in body and mind, so variable that superficially we seem to be not one species but many. | |
| Knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet as it pertains to English helps understanding the underlying mechanisms of English phonology blanketed by an awkward orthography. | |
| What are the underlying causes of Algeria's economic crisis? | |
| What reasoning could underlie their latest decision? | |
| Who knows what disagreements underlie this agreement? | |
| What do you think are the problems that underlie your obsession with martyrdom? | |