Lowell, Robert
Lowell, Robert

lower


Definition: Meaning of, lower in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈləʊə /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
lower lowered lowered
Present Participle Third Person Singular
lowering lowers
[] [intransitive] [literary]
  1. when the sky or the weather lowers, it becomes dark because there is going to be a storm [=  darken]
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  2. to look threatening or annoyed [=  frown]
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  3. reduce [intransitive and transitive] to reduce something in amount, degree, strength etc, or to become less
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  4. move down [transitive] to move something down from higher up
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  5. lower your eyes/head to look down
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  6. lower yourself [usually in negatives] to behave in a way that makes people respect you less
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  7. lower the tone (of something) to make something not as nice as it was
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  1. [only before noun] below something else, especially below something of the same type
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  2. [only before noun] at or near the bottom of something
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  3. smaller in number or amount
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  4. [only before noun] less important than something else of the same type
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lower used in phrases

  • Lower California (noun)
    1. a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico
  • Lower Carboniferous (noun)
    1. from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
  • Lower Carboniferous period (noun)
    1. from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
  • Lower East Side
    1. the Lower East Side the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City, which used to be a poor part of the city, but is now a fashionable place for artists and writers to live
  • Lower Egypt (noun)
    1. one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta
  • Lower House (noun)
    1. a group of elected representatives who make laws in a country, for example the HOUSE OF COMMONS in Britain or the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the US [↪  upper house]
  • Lower Paleolithic (noun)
    1. the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand axe; ended about 120,000 years ago
  • Lower Peninsula (noun)
    1. the part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
  • Lower Saxony (noun)
    1. a state in northwestern Germany
  • Lower Tunguska (noun)
    1. a river that arises to the north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west to the Yenisei River
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