Associations to the word «Underlying»
Noun
- Assumption
- Prognosis
- Pathology
- Mechanism
- Rationale
- Stratum
- Shale
- Abnormality
- Sandstone
- Determinant
- Expiration
- Dysfunction
- Phoneme
- Disorder
- Asset
- Symptom
- Motivation
- Geology
- Principle
- Hypertension
- Cause
- Swap
- Tcp
- Anemia
- Malnutrition
- Topology
- Semantics
- Schema
- Cartilage
- Limestone
- Weathering
- Imbalance
- Treating
- Dynamics
- Layer
- Crust
- Api
- Tissue
- Manifestation
- Magma
- Outcrop
- Phenotype
- Dividend
- Variance
- Sediment
- Diabetes
- Dementia
- Lesion
- Disease
- Ontology
- Mantle
- Basalt
- Impairment
- Fundamental
- Worldview
- Delirium
- Phonology
- Erosion
- Variable
Adjective
- Topological
- Phonological
- Causal
- Neural
- Neuronal
- Syntactic
- Systemic
- Epithelial
- Neurological
- Sedimentary
- Factual
- Derivative
- Tectonic
- Cortical
- Stochastic
- Pathological
- Observable
- Physiological
- Superficial
- Cognitive
- Biochemical
- Conceptual
- Manifold
- Therapeutic
- Chronic
- Latent
- Fundamental
- Metabolic
- Motive
- Pulmonary
- Glacial
- Invariant
- Renal
- Vascular
- Semantic
Wiktionary
UNDERLYING, adjective. Lying underneath
UNDERLYING, adjective. Basic or fundamental
UNDERLYING, adjective. Implicit
UNDERLYING FORM, noun. (phonology) A property of a morpheme; the abstract form that the morpheme is postulated to have before any phonological rules have applied to it.
Dictionary definition
UNDERLYING, adjective. In the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning".
UNDERLYING, adjective. Located beneath or below.
UNDERLYING, adjective. Being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.