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What (who) is Underline - definition

CHARACTER THAT ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON THE TYPEWRITER AND WAS PRIMARILY USED TO UNDERLINE WORDS
Underline; Underlining; ‗; _; Underscores; ̲̲; Underlines; Combining low line; Underlined; Underbar; Under score; Low dash; ⎁; ⎂; Underdash; ︳; ︴; ﹍; ﹎; ﹏; Text-decoration: underline; Underscore (character); Underscore (punctuation); ASCII 95; \x5F; U+005F; Double low line; _ _ Spacing underscore

underline         
(underlines, underlining, underlined)
1.
If one thing, for example an action or an event, underlines another, it draws attention to it and emphasizes its importance.
The report underlined his concern that standards were at risk...
But the incident underlines how easily things can go wrong.
= underscore
VERB: V n, V wh, also V that, V the fact that
2.
If you underline something such as a word or a sentence, you draw a line underneath it in order to make people notice it or to give it extra importance.
Take two coloured pens and underline the positive and negative words.
VERB: V n
Underline         
·vt To influence secretly.
II. Underline ·vt To mark a line below, as words; to Underscore.
underline         
¦ verb
1. draw a line under (a word or phrase) to give emphasis or indicate special type.
2. emphasize (something).
¦ noun
1. a line drawn under a word or phrase.
2. the line of the lower part of an animal's body.

Wikipedia

Underscore

An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer. Its use to add emphasis in modern documents is a deprecated practice.

The underscore character, _, also called a low line, or low dash, originally appeared on the typewriter so that underscores could be typed. To produce an underscored word, the word was typed, the typewriter carriage was moved back to the beginning of the word, and the word was overtyped with the underscore character.

In modern usage, underscoring is achieved by markup or with the Unicode combining low line. The underscore character is used in strings where spaces are not permitted to create visual spacing, such as in computer filenames, email addresses, and in Internet URLs, for example Mr_John_Smith. It is also used as markup to indicate underscore or italics, for instance _thus_ rendering as thus or thus.

Examples of use of Underline
1. They certainly underline the positive message that children count.
2. More than that, they underline why she remains an icon.
3. Nevertheless, the minutes did underline the bank‘s concerns.
4. Despite her doubts there is plenty to underline her faith.
5. To others it may underline the decline in restrained language.