lower
See also: Lower
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From low + -er (comparative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊ.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈloʊ.ɚ/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈloʊ(ə)ɹ/, [ˈloː.(ə)ɹ]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
Adjective
[edit]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.
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Carrajung Lower
- Coychurch Lower
- Gellibrand Lower
- Heytesbury Lower
- lower 48
- Lower Acacia Creek
- lower airway
- lowerarchy
- lower arm
- lower atmosphere
- lower back
- Lower Bago
- Lower Barrington
- Lower Basildon
- Lower Bavaria
- Lower Bayao
- Lower Beechmont
- Lower Beeding
- Lower Belford
- Lower Bentley
- Lower Beulah
- lower body
- lower body day
- Lower Boro
- Lower Bottle Creek
- lower bound
- lower boundary
- Lower Broughton
- Lower Brynamman
- Lower Bullingham
- lower camel case
- Lower Canada
- lower-case, lower case, lowercase
- lower chamber
- Lower Chichester
- Lower Chinook
- Lower Chittering
- lower class
- lower-class
- lower convex envelope
- lower court
- Lower Cowley
- Lower Creek
- Lower Cressbrook
- lower criticism
- Lower Cumberworth
- Lower Daintree
- Lower Darwen
- lower deck
- lower-down
- Lower Duck Creek
- Lower Dyraaba
- Lower Edmonton
- Lower Egypt
- Lower Egyptian
- lower esophageal sphincter
- Lower Eyre Peninsula
- Lower Franconia
- lower garment
- Lower Gwynedd
- Lower Hermitage
- Lower Heyford
- Lower Holker
- Lower Hotham
- lower house
- Lower Hutt
- Lower Ince
- Lower Inman Valley
- lower Ivy
- lower jaw
- Lower King
- Lower Lake
- Lower Langford
- Lower Largo
- lower larynx
- lower leaf zone
- Lower Lewis Ponds
- Lower Light
- lower limit
- lower lip
- Lower Longley
- Lower Lusatia
- Lower Lusatian
- Lower Lydbrook
- Lower Macdonald
- Lower Makefield
- Lower Mangrove
- lower mantle
- Lower Marshes
- Lower Maton
- lower-medium
- Lower Merion
- lower middle class
- Lower Milford
- Lower Mitcham
- Lower Moira
- Lower Moor
- lower mordent
- lowermost
- Lower Mount Bethel
- Lower Mount Walker
- lower mouth
- Lower Navarre
- Lower Norton
- lower order
- lower orders
- Lower Oxford
- Lower Pappinbarra
- Lower Paxton
- Lower Peacock
- Lower Peover
- Lower Plenty
- Lower Portland
- Lower Providence
- lower quartile
- lower reaches
- lower regions
- lower respiratory tract
- Lower Salford
- Lower Sapey
- Lower Saxony
- lower school
- lower semicontinuous
- lower semi-continuous
- lower set
- Lower Sibatang
- Lower Silesia
- Lower Silesian
- lower sixth
- Lower Slaughter
- Lower Snug
- Lower Solva
- Lower Sorbian
- Lower Southampton
- Lower Southgate
- lower surgery
- Lower Svaneti
- Lower Swanwick
- Lower Sydenham
- Lower Tanana
- Lower Tenthill
- lower than a snake's belly
- lower than whaleshit
- lower the bar
- lower third
- Lower Thorpe
- Lower Tully
- Lower Turners Beach
- Lower Wattle Grove
- Lower Wendish
- Lower Wilmot
- Lower Withington
- Lower Wonga
- Lower Xiajiadian culture
- lowery
- Lower Yoder
- lurk
- Mahayahay Lower
- mean lower low water
- member of lower house
- Newton Lower Falls
- nonlower
- Ormond Lower
- rear admiral lower half
- Tarwin Lower
- Templestowe Lower
- the lower 48
- walk on one's lower lip
- zero lower bound
Translations
[edit]more towards the bottom
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Adverb
[edit]lower
- comparative form of low: more low
Verb
[edit]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.
- 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
- Please lower your voices. This is a library.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble.
- lower one's pride
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- Synonym: (formal) descend
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (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 terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail
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pull down
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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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Noun
[edit]lower (plural lowers)
- A bicycle suspension fork component.
Translations
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlaʊə/, /ˈlaʊ.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlaʊɚ/, /ˈlaʊ.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
Verb
[edit]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!
Usage notes
[edit]- The spelling lour is often preferred to avoid confusion with Etymology 1 (e.g. "the clouds lowered" is ambiguous and could be /ˈlaʊɚ/ or /ˈloʊɚ/).
Related terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Scanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lower m
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