(transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
underlain
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for underlain.
Editorial note
Unfortunately everything in the USA is underlain with financial cost and incentive.
Quick take
(transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of underlain gathered in one view.
(transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
(transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for underlain.
verb
(transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
verb
(transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
verb
(transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
verb
(mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
Example sentences
Unfortunately everything in the USA is underlain with financial cost and incentive.
Much of the surface of Mars is underlain by significant amounts of water ice permafrost.
This effect is particularly pronounced in regions like Bangkok, which is situated in the Chao Phraya River Basin—an area underlain by soft, sedimentary layers.
The current world power structure is underlain by the control of oil.
In another comment I mentioned that any set of user-positive functionality is underlain with a far more strategically important business benefit.
The oceans are mostly underlain by basalts.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Finland mostly underlain at fairly shallow depth by hard crystalline rocks that are more expensive to drill through?
India is a former continent underlain by its own craton and its own tectonic plate that has collided with the much larger Eurasian plate in the epic Himalayan orogeny [1].
It has a toy understanding of money, a toy understanding of inflation, a toy understanding of payment...but the mechanism they have stumbled upon has underlain real-life credit systems for thousands of years.
Specifically that much of the surface of the planet, if not all of it, is underlain with permafrost that is as much as half water ice in some areas, at a minimum depth below the surface of only around a meter.
The dupes of the new ideology, underlain by the metaphor of the game, think they’re giving us life in an arcade —a child’s dream!— but what we’re really getting is life in a global warehouse, monitored and metricized, forced at every turn to devise strategies that maximize engagement with whatever it is we’re putting out there… all in the name of scraping by.
Quote examples
The "Antialiased text in low PPI is better with hinting" argument is unknowingly underlain by Eurocentric assumptions.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use underlain in a sentence?
Unfortunately everything in the USA is underlain with financial cost and incentive.
What does underlain mean?
(transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
What part of speech is underlain?
underlain is commonly used as verb.