low meaning
EN[ləʊ] [loʊ] [-əʊ] [laʊ] [-aʊ]US
WLow
- Low or LOW may refer to:
- NounPLlows
- Something that is low; a low point.
- You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
- Economic growth has hit a new low.
- A depressed mood or situation.
- He is in a low right now
- (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
- The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
- Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
- (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
- He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
- (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
- (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
- A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains. (Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire, 1686; cited after OED).
- (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
- And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low. (Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems 1847)
- Something that is low; a low point.
- VerbSGlowsPRlowingPT, PPlowed
- (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
- obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
- (intransitive) To moo.
- The cattle were lowing.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
- (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
- AdjectiveCOMlowerSUPlowest
- In a position comparatively close to the ground.
- Small in height.
- Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
- Depressed, sad.
- low spirits
- I felt low at Christmas with no family to celebrate with.
- Not high in amount or quantity.
- Food prices are lower in a supermarket than in a luxury department store.
- Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
- Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts.
- Quiet; soft; not loud.
- They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
- Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
- Now that was low even for you!
- a person of low mind
- a low trick or stratagem
- Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
- a low pulse
- made low by sickness
- Being near the equator.
- the low northern latitudes
- Humble in character or status.
- Simple in complexity or development.
- Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
- Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
- (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
- (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
- a low diet
- In a position comparatively close to the ground.
- AdverbCOMlowerSUPlowest
- Close to the ground.
- Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- to speak low
- Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- He sold his wheat low.
- In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
- In a time approaching our own.
- (astronomy) 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.
- The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
- Close to the ground.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- There was also a possible cost of reproduction detected, with breeders having the lowest survival and prebreeders the highest (Fig 2B ).
- Hepatic Timp1 expression is also elevated in a mouse model that resembles type 2 diabetes, elicited by HFD combined with low doses of strepzotocin treatment in order to induce beta cell dysfunction.
- Possibly, a low concentration in the water-extract of pharmacologically active lipophilic compounds, including tanshinones, led to a lack of efficacy of Danshen.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Low chroma colors due to reduced conditions are often indistinguishable from lithochromatic colors imparted by till parent materials.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.
- This company decided to shut up shop in this country and move to America, where corporate taxes are lower.
- Variable costs of nuclear-generated electricity seem low.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of low in English Dictionary
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