0 to draw a line under a word, especially in order to show its importance: --
1 to draw a line under a word: --
The announcement underlines IBM’s newfound willingness to employ technologies developed by other companies.
to underline significant parts of a text
The differences in tone, emphasis and content were underlined by fundamentally different policies and ideological positions in major issues.
The first message underlines the explicit alliance of civil society within the health agenda.
At each reduction step, the selected -abstraction and its argument are underlined.
The topic of the sentence is underlined in these examples.
Various theory-internal abstractions are underlined in this chapter.
The bases participating in the pairing indicated in column 3 are underlined (column 2).
The analysis communicates with the specializer using two-level terms, which indicate code generation by underlining and compile-time operations by overlining.
In a two-level program, overlining indicates compile-time operations whereas underlining indicates run-time operations.
