lower
see also: Lower
Pronunciation Adjective
Lower
Proper noun
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see also: Lower
Pronunciation Adjective
- comparative form of 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
- comparative form of low
lower (lowers, present participle lowering; 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.
- (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
- French: faire descendre (bucket, etc.), abaisser, amener (sail, flag)
- German: herunterlassen
- Italian: abbassare
- Portuguese: abaixar, descer, baixar
- Russian: опуска́ть
- Spanish: bajar
- Portuguese: diminuir
- Russian: снижа́ть
- French: baisser, diminuer, abaisser
- Italian: abbassare
- Portuguese: diminuir, abaixar, baixar
- Russian: снижа́ть
- Spanish: bajar, abajar
- Russian: унижа́ть
- French: s'abaisser
- Russian: унижа́ться
lower (lowers, present participle lowering; 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#English|Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.
Lower
Proper noun
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