Usually means: Foundation or support for overlay.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word underlay:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. underlay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underlay: Merriam-Webster
  3. underlay, underlay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underlay, underlay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. underlay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. underlay: Vocabulary.com
  7. underlay: Wordnik
  8. underlay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. underlay: Wiktionary
  10. underlay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. underlay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. underlay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. underlay: Dictionary.com
  14. underlay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. underlay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Underlay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Underlay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. underlay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. underlay: Rhymezone
  20. Underlay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. underlay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. underlay: FreeDictionary.org
  23. underlay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. underlay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. underlay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underlay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See underlie as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
verb:  (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
verb:  (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
verb:  (mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
noun:  A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
noun:  A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
noun:  Anything that is underlaid.
noun:  (printing, historical) A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
noun:  (music) Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.

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