lower
A bicycle suspension fork component.
Adjective
- comparative form of low: more low
- Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
- Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
- Lower Manhattan
- Lower Burgundy
- Older.
Origin
From low + -er (comparative suffix).
Antonyms
Derived
Carrajung Lower Coychurch Lower Gellibrand Lower Heytesbury Lower lower 48 Lower Acacia Creek lower airway lowerarchy lower arm lower atmosphere lower back Lower Bago Lower Barrington Lower Basildon Lower Bavaria Lower Bayao Lower Beechmont Lower Beeding Lower Belford Lower Bentley Lower Beulah lower body lower body day Lower Boro
Adverb
- comparative form of low: more low
Noun
- A bicycle suspension fork component.
Forms
Verb Entry 4
- 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
- 1833 (first publication), Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave.
- To pull down
- to lower a flag
- To reduce the height of
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- To depress as to direction
- lower the aim of a gun
- To make less elevated
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- To bring down; to humble
- lower one's pride
- 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.
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
Forms
Synonyms
bring down shorten reduce turn down be humble cut die off drop fall fall off shrink become get smaller get lower lessen
Derived
lowerable lowerator lowerer lower one's guard lower one's sights lower the bar lower the boom lower the tone relower unlowered
Verb alt of, alternative
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried. - c. 1593 (date written), [William...
- [...] Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face. - 1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 215:
- And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh! - 1846, R[obert] S[tephen] Hawker, “The Wreck”, in Echoes...