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What does underlie mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word underlie? Here's what it means.

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  1. (intransitive) To lie in a position directly beneath.
  2. (transitive) To lie under or beneath.
  3. (transitive) To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.
  4. (transitive) To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.
  5. (mining) To underlay.
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He maintained that these methodological principles underlie evaluative practice in science just as modus ponens underlies deductive inference.
When we get to the appeal, let us focus on the issues that underlie the appeal.
Only animals active at night have these tapetums, which underlie their light-retrieving retinas.
These assumptions underlie the justification for conventional screening for the premorbid or early stage of a disease.
During this time the molecular processes of memory formation which underlie addiction are accelerated.
This is not a complete dissection of the flimsy arguments that underlie the country's China syndrome on nuclear weapons.

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