Underlay

[ʌndə'leɪ] or ['ʌndɚle]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing; 'underlay the boards with joists'.

(verb.) put (something) under or beneath; 'They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper'.

(verb.) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; 'underlay the plate'.

丹尼尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To lay beneath; to put under.

(v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

(n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).

(v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

(n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.

(n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.

黛尔編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to lay under or to support by something laid under.—v.i. to incline from the perpendicular.—n. Un′derlay a piece of paper pasted under woodcuts stereotype plates &c. in a form to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.—n. Underlay′er one who underlays.

校對:佩德罗