lower
See also: Lower
Contents
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
low + -er (comparative suffix)
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
- bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from lower (adjective)
- lower 48
- lower airway
- lowerarchy
- lower back
- lower case, lowercase
- lower chamber
- lower class
- lower deck
- lower extreme
- lower house
- lower leaf zone
- lower limit
- Lower Lusatian
- lowermost
- lower quartile
- lower regions
- lower respiratory tract
- Lower Saxony
- lower school
- lower semi-continuous
- Lower Silesian
- Lower Sorbian
- Lower Wendish
TranslationsEdit
more towards the bottom
AdverbEdit
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
VerbEdit
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
- (transitive) to pull down
- to lower a flag
- 1833 (first publication), Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women
- Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love
Down to a silent grave.
- Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- lower the aim of a gun
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- lower one's pride
- (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
SynonymsEdit
- (let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail): bring down
- (reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney): shorten
- (depress as to direction, as a gun):
- (make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes): reduce
- (reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature): reduce, turn down
- (transitive: to humble):
- (reflexive: to humble oneself): be humble
- (reduce (something) in value, amount, etc): cut, reduce
- (intransitive: grow less): die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink
- (intransitive: decrease in value): become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduce
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail
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pull down
reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney
depress as to direction, as a gun
make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes
reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature
transitive: to humble
reflexive: to humble oneself
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reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
to fall, to grow less
intransitive: to decrease in value
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Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- Alternative spelling of lour
- c. 1593, [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed by Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, OCLC 55191490, [Act I, scene i]:
- Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415, book I, page 215:
- […] Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.
- 1846, R[obert] S[tephen] Hawker, “The Wreck”, in Echoes from Old Cornwall, London: Joseph Masters, […], OCLC 3365560, stanza X, page 76:
- And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!