Underlaid definition

ŭndər-lād
Laid or placed underneath.
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Placed or laid underneath.
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Supported or raised by something from beneath; having an underlay.
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Having an underlay or underlying layer, support, etc.
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Simple past tense and past participle of underlay.
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Underlaid Sentence Examples

  • Cutch and Kathiawar they are underlaid by Jurassic and Neocomian beds.

  • The tundra is a coastal plain, swampy and covered with undergrowth and underlaid by gravel.

  • These prairies are traversed by ridges, which facilitate irrigation, and are underlaid by an impervious subsoil, which facilitates both effective storage and drainage.

  • The plains, except in the south-east corner, are underlaid by sheets of water-bearing sandstone, which carry a volume of water under such pressure that in the valleys of the James river and the Missouri river and its western tributaries a strong surface flow may be obtained from artesian wells.

  • The Great Plains.A broad stretch of country underlaid by nearly horizontal strata extends westward from the 97th meridian to the base of the Rocky Mountains, a distance of from 300 to 500 in., and northward from the Mexican, boundary far into Canada.

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