adverb
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In a lower place.
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On a lower storey.
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Further down.
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On a lower deck.
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the landlubbers lying down below
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(of a temperature) Below zero.
preposition
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Lower in spatial position than.
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The treasure is buried two meters below the surface.
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Within the writing of a given document which follows a particular appearance of the word "below".
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"By their execution hereof, the Parties incur a legal obligation to pass consideration under this Loan Contract as is set forth below."
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Lower in value, price, rank or concentration than.
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The temperature is below zero.
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Downstream of.
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South of.
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Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
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Such petty behavior is below me.
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(stage directions) Downstage of.
Examples of below in a Sentence
The dealers stuck below are flipping out.
There were lots of pretty flowers down below but he kept driving.
She passed below him.
Martha yelled from below.
Long afterward James Hogg said, "I never felt so grateful to any creature below the sun as I did to Sirrah that morning."
The dimple appeared below twinkling eyes.
He gazed out at the terrain below.
Other French soldiers standing below went up to the drawer.
The doctor pulled at the mask that hung below his mouth, and for the first time, sounded interested.
See Judicial System, below.
He was too busy looking at the scene below them.
The view downstream and directly below the bridge was awesome.
Across the field, two elk grazed on the hill below the tree line.
Down below, on the left, the firing became more distinct.
All were out of sight below except for Mick and Penny who were just now scrambling up to the path.
Small shallow cups are placed below the FIG.
For the better part of an hour they gazed down on the scene below and discussed her plans for the dude ranch.
Her gaze followed her finger as she rested it on her name below theirs.
But below this again is a human deposit, from 20 to 26 ft.
In 1891 excessively heavy autumn rains washed the arable soils to such an extent that the next season's corn crops were below average.
The existence of sulphuretted hydrogen in great quantities below loo fathoms, the extensive chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate, the stagnant nature of its deep waters, and the absence of deep-sea life are conditions which make it impossible to discuss it along with the physical and biological conditions of the Mediterranean proper.
The depths of the Black Sea are lifeless, higher organic life not being known to exist below loo fathoms. Fossiliferous remains of Dreissena, Cardium and other molluscs have, however, been dredged up, which help to show that conditions formerly existed in the Black Sea similar to those that exist at the present day in the Caspian Sea.
Below this river prairie areas become increasingly common, constituting the entire S.W.
Lands with an acreage below 246 ac. are not expropriated.
The capitals are remarkable, inasmuch as the necking immediately below the echinus is decorated with a band of leaves, the arrangement of which varies in different cases.
You still need room to hook in below the square knot to rappel down.
Two festivals are held in the town, a less important one in October, the other, on the 24th and 25th of May, unique for its gathering of gipsies who come in large numbers to do honour to the tomb of their patroness Sara, contained in the crypt below the apse.
The climate of Minas Geraes is characterized by high sun temperatures and cool nights, the latter often dropping below the freezing point on the higher campos.
Below the anther the surface of the column in front is hollowed out into a greenish depression covered with viscid fluid - this is the two united stigmas.
The fruit is a capsule splitting generally by three longitudinal slits forming valves which remain united above and below.
A fine bridge, the Pont Julien, spanning the Coulon below the town, dates from the 2nd or 3rd century.
Only a part of this great continental divide (including such ranges as the Hindu Kush, Tian-shan, Altai or Khangai) rises to any great height, a considerable portion of it being below 5000 ft.
Although for the purposes of geographical nomenclature, boundaries formed by a coast-line - that is, by depressions of the earth's solid crust below the ocean level - are most easily recog- Political nized and are of special convenience; and although such divisions.
The north-eastern portion of this range is of great altitude, and separates the headwaters of the Oxus, which run off to the Aral Sea, from those of the Indus and its Kabul tributary, which, uniting below Peshawar, are thence discharged southward into the Arabian Sea.
Below the north-east declivity of this range lies Georgia, on the other side of which province rises the Caucasus, the boundary of Asia and Europe between the Caspian and Black Seas, the highest points of which reach an elevation of nearly 19,000 ft.
The more northern parts of Mongolia are between 4000 and 6000 ft., and no portion of the route across the desert between the Chinese frontier and Kiakhta is below 3000 ft.
The higher mountains rise abruptly from the plains; on their slopes, clothed below almost exclusively with the more tropical forms, a vegetation of a warm temperate character, chiefly evergreen, soon begins to prevail, comprising Magnoliaceae, Ternstroemiaceae, subtropical Rosaceae, rhododendron, oak, Ilex, Symplocos, Lauraceae, Pinus longifolia, with mountain forms of truly tropical orders, palms, Pandanus, Musa, Vitis, Vernonia, and many others.
Arles stands on the left bank of the Rhone, just below the point at which the river divides to form its delta.
The northern portion of this, below the castle hill, is the older, while the part near the shore consists mainly of modern buildings of no great interest.
Below this is a circular, and below that again a longitudinal, layer of muscle fibres.
This condition is more fully dealt with below in the description of the Oligochaeta.
On the other hand, additional longitudinal trunks are sometimes developed, the chief one of which is a supra-intestinal vessel lying below the dorsal vessel and closely adherent to the walls of the oesophagus in which region it appears.
The only river of importance is the Ill, which falls into the Rhine after a course of more than 100 m., and is navigable below Colmar.
As she was gathering flowers with her playmates in a meadow, the earth opened and Pluto, god of the dead, appeared and carried her off to be his queen in the world below.
Below the villeins in the social scale came the cottiers possessing smaller holdings, sometimes only a garden, and no oxen.
The works of Gervase Markham, Leonard Mascall, Gabriel Plattes and other authors of the first half of the 17th century may be passed over, the best part of them being preserved by Blith and Hartlib, who are referred to below.
He is a great enemy to commons and common fields, and to retaining land in 1 During the 16th century wheat had risen in price, and between 1606 and 1618 never fell below 30s.
It thus appears that the average yield of wheat in Great Britain, as calculated upon the crops harvested during the ten years (1896-1905), exceeded 31 bushels to the acre, whereas, for the ten years ended 1895, it fell below 29 bushels.
The insects in the larval or wireworm stage attack the roots of plants, eating them away below the ground.
This habit can be used as a means of killing them, by placing boards or sacks covered with tar below the trees, which are then gently shaken.