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発音

• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʌn.dəˌskɔː(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈʌn.dɚˌskoɹ/
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌʌn.dəˈskɔː(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˌʌn.dɚˈskɔɹ/

名詞

underscore (plural underscores)

1. A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.

   Synonyms: underline, low line

   • 2007, Richard D. Ondo, “Used Cars in West Virginia”, in A Third Cell in America: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 15:

     He walks into the house and picks up a pen. The thought he has is a brilliant idea. He must write it down. Only two words need to be written. The underscore adds importance. / BOUNTY HUNTER

2. (music) A piece of background music.

動詞

underscore (third-person singular simple present underscores, present participle underscoring, simple past and past participle underscored)

1. (transitive) To underline; to mark a line beneath text.
   • 2011, Matt Aimonetti, MacRuby: The Definitive Guide: Ruby and Cocoa on OS X, page 14:

     By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names.

2. (transitive) To emphasize or draw attention to.

   I wish to underscore the importance of proper formatting.

   • 1986, Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative:

     The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth.

   • 2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 October 2018:

     Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets of arch dialogue.

   • 2023 October 31, Stephen Collinson, “A new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 12 August 2024:

     Biden on Monday unveiled new measures to tackle antisemitism on college campuses and senior officials underscored the need to combat anti-Jewish hate.

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