lower meaning
EN
[ˈləʊə] [ˈloʊɚ] [-əʊə(r)] [ˈlaʊə, ˈlaʊ.ə] [ˈlaʊɚ, ˈlaʊ.ɚ] 
US WLower
- Lower may refer to:
- Lower Township, New Jersey
- Lower Receiver (firearms)
- Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England
- VerbSGlowersPRloweringPT, PPloweredSUF-er
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down.
- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
- (transitive) to pull down.
- to lower a flag
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love / Down to a silent grave. Alfred Tennyson.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of.
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- (transitive) To depress as to direction.
- lower the aim of a gun
- (transitive) To make less elevated.
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of.
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble.
- lower one's pride
- (reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down.
- Adjective
- Adverb
- comparative form of low: more low.
- comparative form of low: more low.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Béarn and the (Basque) region Lower Navarre formed the present département of the Basses-Pyrenées ('Lower Pyrenees')
- Polyethylene oxide (PEO) was coextruded with poly (ethylene- co -acrylic acid) (EAA), a copolymer with much lower crystallinity than PEO (fig. S1).
- When Jack came back late from lunch, the team leader really lowered the boom on him.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love / Down to a silent grave. Alfred Tennyson.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- This company decided to shut up shop in this country and move to America, where corporate taxes are lower.
- The shell presents a representative nacroprismatic microstructure, with columnar calcitic prisms in the upper and nacreous layer in the lower.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of lower in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adjective forms
- Adjective comparative forms
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- Adverbs
- Adverb forms
- Adverb comparative forms
- Adverb comparative forms
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- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words suffixed with -er
- Words by suffix
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- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
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- Ergative verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "lower" is an adjective, more specifically, an adjective form. It's also an adverb, more specifically, an adverb form. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.