More than once during the years that I had lived with him in Baker Street I had observed that a small vanity underlay my companion's quiet and didactic manner.
Source: tatoeba (6373693)
Underlay
//ʌndəɹˈleɪ//
Synonyms for "underlay" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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1 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
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3 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 7 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- döşənək noun (anything underlaid)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 地毯襯墊 /地毯衬垫 noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
- 襯墊物 /衬垫物 noun (anything underlaid)
- 襯底 /衬底 noun (anything underlaid)
Finnish
3 entries- alunen noun (anything underlaid)
- alusmatto noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
- alusta noun (anything underlaid)
French
1 entries- sous-couche noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
Irish
2 entries- fobhrat noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
- foleagan noun (piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc.)
Māori
1 entries- tuwhara noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
Russian
4 entries- основа́ние noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
- подкла́дка noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
- подкла́дка noun (anything underlaid)
- подсло́й noun (soft floor covering under carpet)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
When I took up the old carpet, I wasn't surprised to find that the underlay had perished.
Source: tatoeba (11559482)
to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing
Source: wiktionary
The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.
Source: wiktionary
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