Meaning

4 senses
  1. A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink.

    Unterstreichung

    подчёркиваниеpodčórkivanije

  2. (uncommon)The character _.

    Unterstrich

    подчёркиваниеpodčórkivanije

  3. (dated)An announcement of a theatrical performance to follow, placed in an advertisement for the current one.

  4. (dated)A caption beneath a photograph (which may have more than one line of text).

More definitions
  • a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)

Examples

33 sentences
  1. Translate the underlined sentences.

    Перекладіть підкреслені речення. — deniko

    ruПереведите подчеркнутые предложения. — odexed

    deÜbersetze die unterstrichenen Sätze. — cost

  2. Please underline every word you don't know.

  3. Please underline every word that you don't know.

    deBitte jedes Wort unterstreichen, das du nicht verstehst! — Waldelfe

  4. I underlined all the words that I didn't know.

    ruЯ подчеркнула все незнакомые слова. — Wezel

  5. Tom underlined what he thought was the most important word in the sentence.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
line underneath text:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
line underneath text:
an _ character:

Forms

plural: underlines
Singularunderline
Pluralunderlines

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter):underscore

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
underline — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto