Usually means: Foundation or support for overlay.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word underlay:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. underlay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. underlay, underlay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underlay, underlay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. underlay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. underlay: Vocabulary.com
  6. underlay: Wordnik
  7. underlay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. underlay: Wiktionary
  9. underlay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. underlay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. underlay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. underlay: Dictionary.com
  13. underlay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. underlay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Underlay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Underlay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. underlay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. underlay: Rhymezone
  19. Underlay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. underlay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. underlay: Free Dictionary
  22. underlay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. underlay: Dictionary/thesaurus

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, transitive, intransitive, 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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