lower
See also: Lower
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
low + -er (comparative suffix)
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈloʊɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
AdjectiveEdit
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
- bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
- Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
- Lower Manhattan
- Lower Burgundy
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- lower 48
- lower airway
- lower back
- Lower Basildon
- Lower Beeding
- Lower Bullingham
- Lower Canada
- lower case, lowercase
- lower chamber
- Lower Chichester
- lower class
- Lower Cumberworth
- Lower Darwen
- lower deck
- Lower Edmonton
- Lower Holker
- lower house
- Lower Hutt
- Lower Ince
- Lower Langford
- lower leaf zone
- lower limit
- Lower Lusatian
- Lower Lydbrook
- Lower Moor
- Lower Oxford
- lower quartile
- lower regions
- lower respiratory tract
- Lower Saxony
- lower school
- lower semi-continuous
- Lower Silesian
- Lower Sorbian
- Lower Sydenham
- Lower Thorpe
- Lower Wendish
- Lower Withington
- lowerarchy
- lowermost
TranslationsEdit
more towards the bottom
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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
- 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
- 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: New level-crossing signs”, in Trains Illustrated, page 519:
- At level crossings where there are to be half-barriers, train-operated through track-circuiting, the barriers will be timed to lower fully about five seconds before the fastest train can reach the crossing.
- (transitive) to pull down
- to lower a flag
- (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.
- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
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
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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
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transitive: to humble
reflexive: to humble oneself
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reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
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to fall, to grow less
intransitive: to decrease in value
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Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlaʊə/, /ˈlaʊ.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlaʊɚ/, /ˈlaʊ.ɚ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
VerbEdit
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- Alternative spelling of lour
- c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [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: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, 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, 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!
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
ScanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lower m