Word Finder - lowest

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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.

Whoever receives the three lowest scores on the test will have to retake it.

They continued up a winding path toward the top of the lowest of the mountains.

The tourist group's aim was to travel to both the lowest and highest points of the country.

The town is amongst the healthiest in Scotland and has the lowest rainfall in the county.

The north normally reaches its lowest temperatures in the month of January.

The yield reached its lowest point in 1899, but subsequently increased through the application of improved machinery, while the tailings of the old diggings were treated by the cyanide process with profitable results.

As previously mentioned, a pair of minute jaws - the maxillulae- are present in the lowest order of insects, between the mandibles and the first maxillae.

Only the very lowest counts can be spun from cotton with " no staple," that is, with a fibre of about three-quarters of an inch.

The difference between the highest and lowest price, we may observe, is a very imperfect indication of the range of movement (though, taken in conjunction with the standard deviation, it is the best at our disposal), because either of the extreme prices might be accidental and quite out of relation to all others.

The rainfall is one of the lowest in the kingdom.

It thus appears that the live stock industry is one of the most important in the state; the value of its product in 1899 exceeded its output of gold and silver, which had then reached its lowest point, by over one million dollars.

Contracts for large or important works or for the supply of large amounts of goods are usually put out to tender in order to secure the lowest price.

The largest area of wheat in the period was that of 1890, and the smallest was that of 1904; the same two years are seen to have been respectively those of highest and lowest total produce.

In the highest hell rules alone the grisly king Sh'dum, "the warrior"; in the storey immediately beneath is Giv, "the great"; and in the lowest is Krun or Karkum, the oldest and most powerful of all, commonly called "the great mountain of flesh" (Third rabba d'besra), but also "the first-born of darkness."

The standing of the Trichoptera in a position almost ancestral to the Lepidoptera is one of the assured results of recent morphological study, the mobile mandibulate pupa and the imperfectly suctorial maxillae of the Trichoptera reappearing in the lowest families of the Lepidoptera.

The lowest grade tenderable used to be " low middling," but since October 1901 " good ordinary " has also been accepted.

Bitumen is, in its various forms, one of the most widel y -distributed of substances, occurring in strata of every geological age, from the lowest Archean rocks to those now in process of deposition, and in greater or less quantity throughout both hemispheres, from Spitzbergen to New Zealand, and from California to Japan.

Others are deprived of a part of their more volatile constituents by spontaneous evaporation, or by distillation, in vacuo or otherwise, at the lowest possible temperature.

In the Puerco, or Lowest Eocene of North America the place of the above species was taken by Euprotogonia puercensis, an animal only half the size of Phenacodus primaevus, with the terminal joints of the limbs intermediate between hoofs and claws, and the first and fifth toes taking their full share in the support of the weight of the body.

The temple is entirely of Pentelic marble, except the foundations and lowest step of the stylobate, which are of Peiraic stone, and the zophoros of the cella, which is in Parian marble.

Monaghan, to co-operate with the ribbonmen, and its membership seems to have been confined to the very lowest classes.

During his pontificate the church was brought to its lowest level of degradation.

No man in the 18th century did so much to create a taste for good reading and to supply it with books at the lowest prices.

It was transformed long since into a fixed amount per head of the animals taxed, which amount varies according to the region in which the tax is levied, the highest tariff being in the sanjak of Jerusalem (72 piastres) and the lowest in the Yemen (1 piastre).

In all other respects the council, provided that it kept within the limits of the laws the administration of which was entrusted to it, was to be entirely independent of the Ottoman government, free to appoint and dismiss its own officials from highest to lowest, and to carry on its administration on such lines as it thought best.

Here we may probably find the lowest temperatures of the northern hemisphere.

The uppermost lock is St John's, below Lechlade; the lowest is Richmond, but this is a half-tide lock, keeping the water above at a level corresponding to half that of flood tide.

The flowers, which are solitary, or rarely in pairs, at the end of slender axillary flower-stalks, are very irregular in form, with five sepals prolonged at the base, and five petals, the lowest one larger than the others and with a spur, in which collects the honey secreted by the spurs of the two adjoining stamens.

The values of the permeability corresponding to the highest and lowest temperatures are given in the following table.

Most of the permeability-temperature curves were more or less convex towards the axis of temperature, and in all the experiments except those with annealed iron and steel wire, the permeability was greatest at the lowest temperature.

Little is known of the form of the appendages in the lowest archaic Arachnida, but the tendency of those of the prosomatic somites has been (as in the Crustacea) to pass from a generalized bi-ramose or multi-ramose form to, that of uni-ramose antennae, chelae and walking legs.

There were 2847 post offices (agendas), of which 2166 were of the 4th or lowest grade.

The lowest rate of illiteracy is to be found in the southern half of the republic. Public instruction is, by constitutional provision, under secular control, but religious denominations are permitted to have their own schools.

Among the wool-carders - men of the lowest class, dwelling in the precipitous lanes about the Porta Ovile - there was an association styling itself the "company of the worm."

The series covers considerable areas in the lowest parts of the valleys and near the coast.

The lowest point is at Komati Poort, a gorge through the Lebombo hills only 476 ft.

West and north of the Drakensberg the general level of the low veld is not much below that of the lowest altitudes of the middle veld, though the climatic 1 By the Boers the western and less elevated part of the plateau is known as the middle veld.

The original top stratum is the purest, and each succeeding lower stratum has a greater proportion of impurities; the lowest consists largely of a solid or semi-solid alloy of tin and iron.

From the highest to the lowest - with the important exception of the priests - the new age of luxury wiped out the earlier simplicity.

They are extensive grassy plains, the lowest being the bed of an ancient inland lake about which is a broad terrace (mesa), the talus perhaps of the ancient encircling highlands.

Hence not only must the study of our subject include the diseases peculiar to man and the higher animals, but those of the lowest forms of animal life, and of plant life, must be held equally worthy of attention.

In a given case of anasarca due to a cause acting generally, it will be found that the liquid of the pleural cavity always contains the highest percentage of proteid, that of the peritoneal cavity comes next, that of the cerebral ventricles follows this, and the liquid of the subcutaneous areolar tissue contains the lowest.

That night the mine-fields at the mouth of the Dardanelles were cleared away, and battleships were in consequence enabled to penetrate into the lowest reaches of the defile on the morrow.

Peace returned, and during the next twenty or twenty-five years Sikhism reached its lowest ebb; but since then the demand for Sikhs in the regiments of the Indian army and farther afield has largely revived the faith.

He remained there for several years, acting as curate in one of the lowest districts, preparing his Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College (first published in 1674), and composing hymns.

New Hampshire had the highest average, 1785 lb per acre, and Mississippi the lowest, 440 Ib.

Silk is largely worn even by the lowest classes of the inhabitants.

In the King furnace, for example, the crucible, or lowest part of the furnace, is made detachable, so that when full it may be removed and an empty crucible substituted.

Separate assemblies were held in the groups for the discussion both of local and Hanseatic affairs, and gradually, but not fully until the 16th century, thegroups became recognized as the lowest stage of Hanse organization.

The lowest range of semicircular arches consists of twenty columns and the second of sixty; and above this is a row of eighteen windows in the same style separated by as many pilasters.