underpointing

Verb

underpoint (third-person singular simple present underpoints, present participle underpointing, simple past and past participle underpointed)

1. To add a dot beneath a letter as a proofreading or diacritical mark.
   • Curiously, he does not underpoint letters to indicate deletion or insert letters above the line; he simply tries again.1948, Urban Tigner Holmes, Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford
2. To emphasize or call attention to a point within a discussion.
   • I would like to underpoint that. Your statement is that your local in the heavy construction as contrasted to the other construction, is not on strike against anybody?1953, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, Strikes and Racketeering in the Kansas City Area
3. To point the underside.
   • When the plates are firmly secured to the walls with the proper wall anchors all the interstices between the wedges should be underpointed with mortar.1891, Carpentry and Building - Volume 13, page 37
4. To include too few points.
   • This gives us a good idea of how much water is down there and how many well-points we need to dewater the area,” Huber explains. “On our projects. we always try to overpoint rather than underpoint.1977, The Excavating Engineer - Volume 71
5. To indicate or focus on a position closer than the one that is intended.
   • If the patient then attempts to fix with the good eye, it will underpoint.1947, The Extrinsic Eye Muscles, page 52

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