Underlying

Examples

• The metal underlying the silver plate of the best plated teaspoons is of nickel silver, a trade name for a metal composed of nickel, copper and zinc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Muhammad's appeal, for example, was to the traditional chivalry and underlying monotheistic feelings of the intelligent Arabs of his time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The underlying phenomena were similar, the difference consisting largely in the arrangement of the circuits and apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying ro cks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What Remington missed was what so many reformers are beginning to miss--an underlying philosophical habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Our explanation has merely aimed to show the underlying phenomena and principles in broad outline without entering into more detail than was deemed absolutely necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was an underlying consciousness all the while that he should have to master this anger, and tell her everything, and convince her of the facts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Nothing short of a knowledge of the underlying nature of phenomena can give science advantage over chan ce in hitting upon useful discoveries and inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Archer was proud of the glances turned on her, and the simple joy of possessorship cleared away his underlying perplexities. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And, underlying all, deeper than anything else, higher and broader, lay the strongest principle of her being--conscientiousness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We then proceeded to an analysis of the various assumptions underlying this segregation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Electro-magnetism, the underlying principle of the electro-magnet, was first discovered in 1819 by Prof. Oersted, of Copenhagen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The underlying tone of it is that society is made by man for man's uses, that reforms are inventions to be applied when by experiment they show their civilizing value. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To-day in America, for example, no candidate can escape entirely that underlying irritation which socialists call poverty and some call the high cost of living. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The underlying principle of this class of machinery is the admission of water under pressure to a cylinder which moves the piston and is allowed to escape on the completion of the stroke. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But all these were for improvements, the underlying principle remaining the same. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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