lower
part of speech
adjective (lower, comparative of low; lowest); verb (lower, lowers, lowered, lowering)
meaning for a pupil
1) Lower means less high, closer to the ground, or at the bottom of something. tree →
2) Lower means smaller in number, amount or level. tree →
3) To lower something means to move it down. tree →
4) To lower something like a price, sound or voice means to make it less. tree →
5) Lower can also describe social rank, meaning belonging to the group of people with less money and power. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, «lower» means smaller: 5 is lower than 8; a lower temperature is colder; «lower case» letters are the small letters (a, b, c), and «capital» or «upper case» letters are big. In geography, the lower part of a river is near the sea. In everyday life «lower your voice» means speak more quietly; shops lower prices in a sale. In safety, lower heavy objects slowly and carefully with bent knees.
examples
- The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower. (Torah DEU.28.43, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall; (Torah LEV.14.37, JPS 1917) tree →
- But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and it be not lower than the skin, but be dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. (Torah LEV.13.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. (Writings PSA.8.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement. (Prophets EZK.40.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. (Prophets ISA.22.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Write your name in lower-case letters. tree →
- The temperature is lower at night. tree →
- 12 is lower than 20. tree →
- Lower the bucket into the well slowly. tree →
- Please lower your voice in the library. tree →
- The shop lowered its prices in the sale. tree →
- The lower shelf is for the little ones. tree →
- My lower lip is cut. tree →
note
Comparative of «low»: low, lower, lowest. In maths, «lower» = smaller, so «a lower score» has fewer points; but in golf a lower score wins. «Lower case» = small letters. Opposite: «higher», «upper»; as a verb, «raise». Pronounced LOH-er (rhymes with «slower»).
In the corpora
- And man boweth down, and man lowereth himself; and Thou canst not bear with them.
- And the pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding unto the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
- Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.
- A sale lowers prices; a bargain is only a bargain if you would have bought the thing anyway.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lower» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.