What's the difference between italics and underline?

Italics


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Italic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The parties all agreed that as a result of electronic spying breakthroughs they appear to be now collecting “medical, legal and religious, or restricted business information, which may be regarded as an intrusion of privacy (my italics)”.
  • (2) Treatment of HSV-1-infected cells with the oligo(nucleoside methylphosphonate) d(TpCCTCCTG) (deoxynucleoside methylphosphonate residues in italic), which is complementary to the acceptor splice junction of HSV-1 IE pre-mRNA 4 and 5, before (1-24 hr) or at the time of infection caused a dose-dependent inhibition in virus replication.
  • (3) Muddles, on the other hand, are created when useful distinctions that could be drawn are not[,] or when an unnecessary distinction is drawn" (5, p. 71; italics omitted), or when when a useful distinction is minimized or blurred.
  • (4) Sentences come heavy with italics and euphemism, sometimes both.
  • (5) The italic wording in the letters is compulsory, but you may add or remove other wording.
  • (6) Whereas the gene and cDNA should be italicized, the corresponding transcript, protein, and enzyme activity should not be written with lowercase letters or in italics, e.g., human or murine UGT2B1.
  • (7) But perhaps what's most significant is how it has been marketed as "the first female-driven comedy to come out of the Judd Apatow [my italics] Funny Machine" (MTV).
  • (8) Regarding the role of trabecular bone at the knee joint, the following conclusions may be emphasized (conclusions drawn from the author's previous studies (I-X) are shown in italics): (1) Trabecular bone is almost exclusively responsible for the transmission of load at the proximal tibial epiphysis from the knee joint to the metaphysis.
  • (9) They suggest that the bone disease of Itai-Ital patients may also have started prior to the onset of this type of renal dysfunction.
  • (10) The following is the sequence flanking the thioester residues in C3, the highly conserved amino acids being underlined and the the thioester-forming residues being indicated by italics: 1005V-T-P-S-G-C-G-E-Q-N-M-I-G-M-T-P-T1021.
  • (11) David was mainly interested in political influence, and despised the commercialism of Kemsley, whose Sunday Times was conservative and printed reverential editorials about the royal family in italics.
  • (12) [My italics] There are 25,000 employees of the NSA (and many tens of thousands more who work for private contracts assigned to the agency).
  • (13) In reality, the injury had been self-inflicted, and he had lost a lung, his spleen, several ribs, and a finger, "but nothing else (my italics)".
  • (14) [2] and their generalization that, for the evaluation of genetic radiation hazards in man, we can now "extrapolate from mutation rates obtained in lower organisms to man with greater confidence" on the basis of DNA content (italics are ours).
  • (15) The amino-acid substitution, due to a point mutation, is written in the one-letter code (italized sample).
  • (16) Throughout the text certain terms are given in italics when first used in that particular description and Part 2 gives full explanations of these terms in the context of Part 1.
  • (17) – with the charity's point of view, written in italics: "First get inside the head of a 16-year-old bed-wetting boy."
  • (18) Let's take as a wild for-instance Lembit Opik's kerazy wig, bought at a taxpayer cost (can we just ­assume outraged italics, from now on, where the word "taxpayer" ­occurs?
  • (19) British Security Technologies is parked outside another mansion, its van promising in italic lettering: "We'll Keep You Safe 'n' Sound Tonight."
  • (20) Lagos is no longer the federal cap ital, but it is still the commercial, cultural and trading centre of West Africa, providing most of Nigeria's taxes and revenue.

Underline


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.
  • (v. t.) To influence secretly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
  • (2) On the basis of a follow-up concerning 41 patients and of data from the literature, the authors report their present surgical approach for mixed tumors, underlining their preference for T.C.P., and limiting S.P.
  • (3) We underline the importance of improving the effectiveness of conservative treatment in order to reduce the number of enucleation.
  • (4) The surgical approach used for each type of complication is discussed, underlining the end-result to be attained in relation to the patient's future.
  • (5) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
  • (6) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
  • (7) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (8) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
  • (9) The European council president, Donald Tusk, said the incident underlined the importance of EU attempts to revamp Europe’s border force.
  • (10) May’s rhetoric against the Labour leader appeared to have toughened significantly, underlining the Conservatives’ determination to exploit what they regard as Corbyn’s weaknesses.
  • (11) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
  • (12) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
  • (13) The study underlines drug-induced variations in gonadotropin responsiveness to LHRH which are probably due to variations in the steroid milieu.
  • (14) They underline the genetically heterogeneous nature of OCT deficiencies and the fact that in this X-transmitted trait, hemizygotes can preserve a functional enzymatic activity compatible with life.
  • (15) This underlines the need for several methods to be used simultaneously in order to elicit complementary information.
  • (16) Porcine strains provisionally named taxon 15 seem to constitute a separate group within the family Pasteurellaceae Pohl 1981, underlining the distinct degree of specificity members of this family show for host species.
  • (17) A new case of this lesion, whose acrosyringeal differentiation was underlined by an immunohistological study using antibodies to keratin and involucrin, is reported herein.
  • (18) Shell, along with other oil companies, has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading of profiteering on the UK petrol forecourt, but the $27bn annual earnings figure underlines the enormous global profits being made "upstream" – bringing oil and gas out of the ground.
  • (19) As the focus of the Conservatives’ campaign narrows in the remaining few days, Labour will seek to switch the debate away from Brexit and back to the state of Britain’s public services on Wednesday, with a press conference in London, underlining the likely impact of another five years of spending cuts.
  • (20) We underline the importance of diagnostical awareness at the Primary Care level in order to rapidly begin the correct treatment; and thus fight the adverse epidemiological situation caused by tuberculosis today.

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