Meaning

2 senses
  1. A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.

    Unterstreichung, Unterstrich, Grundstrich

    подчёркиваниеpodčórkivanije

    підкре́сленняpidkréslennja

    a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)

  2. A piece of background music.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tom has an underscore in his password.

    У паролі Тома є знак підреслення — deniko

    ruВ пароле Тома есть знак подчёркивания. — Sablin

  2. Tom used underscores instead of spaces in his screen name.

  3. Why do you have so many underscores in your username?

    ruПочему у тебя в имени пользователя столько подчёркиваний? — marafon

    deWarum hast du eigentlich so viele Unterstriche in deinem Benutzernamen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. The president repeatedly spoke of security, underscoring the need for better intelligence.

  5. Underscoring his incompetency, the president misspelled "education" in his executive order.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
an underline:
Русский
By meaning 1
an underline:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an underline:

Origin

From under- + score.

From under- + score.

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Forms

plural: underscores
Singularunderscore
Pluralunderscores

regular

Synonyms

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

See also

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