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What (who) is Underscore - 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

underscore         
¦ verb another term for underline.
¦ noun another term for underline (in sense 1).
underscore         
(underscores, underscoring, underscored)
1.
If something such as an action or an event underscores another, it draws attention to the other thing and emphasizes its importance. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use underline
)
The Labor Department figures underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery...
= underline
VERB: V n, also V that, V the fact that
2.
If you underscore something such as a word or a sentence, you draw a line underneath it in order to make people notice it or give it extra importance. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use underline
)
He heavily underscored his note to Shelley.
= underline
VERB: V n
underscore         
<character> _, ASCII 95. Common names: ITU-T: underline; underscore; underbar; under. Rare: score; backarrow; skid; INTERCAL: flatworm. See also left arrow. (1995-03-06)

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 Underscore
1. The 2005 honorees effectively underscore that eclecticism.
2. The Communists‘ successes in some regions actually underscore their troubles.
3. Cheney‘s notes from that meeting underscore Libby‘s concern, Wells said.
4. The focus is music, but politics is the underscore.
5. The results underscore the need for better prevention measures.