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plural underscores
A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _. examples
(music) A piece of background music. examples
third-person singular simple present underscores, present participle underscoring, simple past and past participle underscored
To underline; to mark a line beneath text. quotations examples
By convention, Rubyists usually underscore their method names.
2011, Matt Aimonetti, MacRuby: The Definitive Guide: Ruby and Cocoa on OS X, page 14
To emphasize or draw attention to. quotations examples
The tale thus underscores in expressive form the semiparadoxical fact that traders can lie by telling the truth.
1986, Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative