Word Finder - lower

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Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.

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a low wall a low shelf

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Of less than normal height; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.

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a low bow

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Not high in status, esteem or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)

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Now that was low even for you!

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Humble, meek, not haughty.

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Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.

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She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.

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Being a nadir, a bottom.

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the low point in her career

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Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.

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low spirits

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Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.

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a low pulse

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Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

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My credit union charges a low interest rate.   Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous.   The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices.   The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs.   low cholesterol   a low voltage wire   a low number

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Simple in complexity or development; (in several set phrases) favoring simplicity; (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).

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low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms

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(in several set phrases) Being near the equator.

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the low northern latitudes

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(acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.

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Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.

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Quiet; soft; not loud.

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They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.

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Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.

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Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.

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a low card

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Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.

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(of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.

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low gear

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Close to the ground.

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Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.

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With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.

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to speak low

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Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.

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He sold his wheat low.

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In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.

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In a time approaching our own.

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In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.

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The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

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To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

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lower a bucket into a well

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To pull down

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to lower a flag

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To reduce the height of

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lower a chimney or turret

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To depress as to direction

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lower the aim of a gun

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To make less elevated

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to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes

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To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

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lower distilled liquors

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To bring down; to humble

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lower one's pride

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(lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

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I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.

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To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.

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lower the interest rate

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To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

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The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

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To decrease in value, amount, etc.

She bit her lower lip.

She rubbed a sore spot in her lower back.

Tears burned her eyes and her lower lip trembled.

The pad of his thumb traced across her lower lip.

Only in the lower part of it something quivered.

She gnawed at her lower lip.

She gnawed on her lower lip.

How much lower could she sink?

She nibbled on her lower lip.

She chewed her lower lip, warm eyes troubled.

Warmth ran up her neck and she bit her lower lip.

She nibbled on her lower lip with her tiny fangs.

I shouldn't lower myself to your games.

To keep this a headshot, Xander will need to be lower than last time.

Desire pooled in her lower belly, and the ache at her core was intense enough that she wanted to sit down.

The wages are lower than under the boaria.

She gnawed on her lower lip as she lifted their plates from the table and walked over to the sink.

The memory of what he'd done with his mouth made her lower belly burn.

Silently, he acknowledged that he was a fool to lower his guard around the teens and their cousin, to the point he recognized Ashley the first time he saw her but didn't check her mind.

The scent of oak and amber and his calming presence eased some of her tension while filling her lower belly with fire.

It is intersected from southwest to north-east by the long and handsome KOnigsstrasse, dividing it into an upper and a lower town.

The lower, or south-eastern, part contains both the small group of streets belonging to old Stuttgart, and also the most important part of the new town.

Upper margin of the end of the proboscis developed into a distinct finger-like process, much longer than the lower margins, and the whole trunk uniformly tapering and smooth.

The first rise in the lower Senegal is due to the rains in the source region of the Faleme, the flood water passing down that stream more quickly than down the Bafing owing to its shorter course.

In the rainy season the barriers are submerged in succession, the reaches are filled and the plains of the lower Senegal are changed into immense marshes.

Leo Africanus rightly describes its lower course as "severing by its winding channel the barren and naked soil from the green and fruitful."

On the eastern forested slopes and in the lower valleys tropical conditions prevail.

It next passes Innsbruck and from Hall, a few miles lower down, begins to be navigable for barges.

One of these myths is the famous story of Ishtar's descent to Irkalla or Aralu, as the lower world was called, and her reception by her sister who presides over it; the other is the story of Nergal's offence against Ereshkigal, his banishment to the kingdom controlled by the goddess and the reconciliation between Nergal and Ereshkigal through the latter's offer to have Nergal share the honours of the rule over Irkalla.

Mastodons, like elephants, always have a pair of upper tusks, while the earlier ones likewise have a short pair in the lower jaw, which is prolonged into a snout-like symphysis for their support.

In the former the upper tusks are bent down so as to cross the tips of the short and chisel-like lower pair.

These long-chinned mastodons must have had an extremely elongated muzzle, formed by the upper lip and nose above and the lower lip below, with which they were able to reach the ground, the neck being probably rather longer than in elephants.

Summer Observations On Mountains Have Shown Diurnal Variations Very Large And Fairly Regular, But Widely Different From Those Observed At Lower Levels.

The same observer from four weeks' observations at Hammerfest got the considerably lower mean value 58, with a maximum of 252.

At this station much lower values were found for A with sea breezes than with land breezes.

The judges have appellate jurisdiction of cases civil and criminal coming up from the lower courts.

The general elevation in the south part of the state is much lower, and large areas bordering the Paraguay are swampy, partially submerged plains which the sluggish rivers are unable to drain.

The two ends of the loch are wholly dissimilar in character, the scenery of the upper extremity being majestic, while that of the lower half is pastoral and tame.

The Lohengrin legend is localized on the Lower Rhine, and its incidents take place at Antwerp, Nijmwegen, Cologne and Mainz.

Lower Bavaria was ruled by the descendants of Henry I.

The settlements of Lower Saginaw and Portsmouth were made in 1837, and were later united to form Bay City, which was incorporated as a village in 1859, and chartered as a city in 1865.

The lower districts are hot and often unhealthy in the summer, while the climate of the mountainous portion of the island is less oppressive, and would be still cooler if it possessed more forest.

The history of the Netherlands from this time forward - with the exception of Flanders, which continued to be a fief of the French kings - is the history of the various feudal states into which the duchy of Lower Lorraine was gradually broken up.

But the lowness of stature extends to the lower animals - cattle, horses, donkeys, &c. - and this may indicate that climatic causes have some part in the matter also, though Sergi denies this.

This is no doubt accounted for by the extreme poverty which prevails among the lower classes, though beggars, on the other hand, are very few, the convictions being 8.95 per 100,000 against 258.15 per 100,000 for the province of Rome.

On the 21st of August 1715 he summoned all the preachers in the Cevennes and Lower Languedoc to a conference or synod near the village of Monoblet.

The mainland in the north and east is highly mountainous and forest-clad, and the lower portion is cut up into numerous islands by a network of tidal creeks.

Mannheim is the chief commercial town on the upper Rhine, and yields in importance to Cologne alone among the lower Rhenish towns.

In 1862 he was elected a member of the Prussian Lower House.

The name Gheg (Gege-a) is not adopted by the Ghegs themselves, being regarded as a nickname; the designation Tosk (Toske-a) is restricted by the Tosks to the inhabitants of a small region north of the lower Viossa (Toskeria).