underlines
underlines is the plural of underline.
Meaning of underline
Noun
underline (plural underlines)
- 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 _.
- Synonyms:
- underscore, low line
- 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).
- Several readers [...] write to point out that the ex-Great Eastern 0-6-0s now classified as "J20" in the L.N.E.R. lists, no longer hold the supremacy for power among British 0-6-0 locomotives as suggested in the underline to the photograph of one of them which appeared on p. 100 of the March-April...1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Most Powerful 0-6-0”, in Railway Magazine, page 186
Words that rhyme with underlines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about underlines
- What is underlines the plural of?
- Underlines is the plural of underline.
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