underpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpoints
form: underpointing
form: underpointed
form: underpointed
Etymology: From under- + point.
Senses: examples: text: Curiously, he does not underpoint letters to indicate deletion or insert letters above the line; he simply tries again.
ref: 1948, Urban Tigner Holmes, Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford:
text: One might disagree with the emendation, but that is beside the point: it would be inapposite to retain oftost and simply underpoint the first t, since the change presumably introduced by the scribe is not a mere alteration of form but a misapprehension, and this should be signalled by emendation and the use of italics.
ref: 2007, Andrew Wawn, Graham Johnson, John Walter, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth, page 147:
text: Klaeber's practice varies: he underpoints the inflectional vowel in bonan OngenÞēoẹs 1968ᵃ, but in oððe him OngenÞeowes 2475ᵃ he leaves off the macron and, evidently, assumes resolution.
ref: 2008, R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, John D Niles, Klaeber's Beowulf, →ISBN:
glosses: To add a dot beneath a letter as a proofreading or diacritical mark.
examples: text: I would like to underpoint that. Your statement is that your local in the heavy construction as contrasted to the other construction, is not on strike against anybody?
ref: 1953, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, Strikes and Racketeering in the Kansas City Area:
text: I see a man who struggles for identity”: these lines underpoint the theme of this long poem which might be more effective without the “bondage of Rhyming”—to quote William Blake.
ref: 1977, Outposts - Issues 112-115, page 38:
text: This again underpoints the vulnerability of climacteric women.
ref: 1984, John Gerald Greene, The Social and Psychological Origins of the Climacteric Syndrome:
glosses: To emphasize or call attention to a point within a discussion.
examples: text: When the plates are firmly secured to the walls with the proper wall anchors all the interstices between the wedges should be underpointed with mortar.
ref: 1891, Carpentry and Building - Volume 13, page 37:
text: The most suitable material has proved to be the seconds or thirds types of Welsh slate laid on stout battens and well underpointed in haired mortar, gauged with cement.
ref: 1933, Surveyor - Volume 84, page 318:
text: Pantiles made from Bridgwater Clay must not be torched or underpointed, but the roof should be boarded and felted, battened and counterbattened.
ref: 1938, The Architect & Building News - Volume 153, page xlv:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: To point the underside.
examples: text: This gives us a good idea of how much water is down there and how many well-points we need to dewater the area,” Huber explains. “On our projects. we always try to overpoint rather than underpoint.
ref: 1977, The Excavating Engineer - Volume 71:
glosses: To include too few points.
examples: text: If the patient then attempts to fix with the good eye, it will underpoint.
ref: 1947, The Extrinsic Eye Muscles, page 52:
glosses: To indicate or focus on a position closer than the one that is intended.