Usually means: Emphasize text with line beneath.
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  1. underline: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. underline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. underline: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Underline, underline: Wordnik
  7. underline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. underline: Wiktionary
  9. underline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. underline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. underline: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. underline (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. underline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Underline, Underline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Underline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. underline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. underline: Rhymezone
  19. underline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. underline: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. underline: Free Dictionary
  22. underline: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. underline: Legal dictionary

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  1. underline: Medical dictionary

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  1. underline: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (uncommon) The character _.
noun:  (dated) An announcement of a theatrical performance to follow, placed in an advertisement for the current one.
noun:  (dated) A caption beneath a photograph (which may have more than one line of text).
verb:  To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis.
verb:  (figuratively) To emphasise or stress something.
verb:  (figurative, obsolete) To influence secretly.
adjective:  Passing under a railway line.

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