Fromlow +‎-er(comparative suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈləʊ.ə/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈloʊ.ɚ/
• (Canada)IPA^(key):/ˈloʊ(ə)ɹ/,[ˈloː.(ə)ɹ]

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• Rhymes:-əʊə(ɹ)

lower

1. comparative form oflow: morelow
2. Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
3. Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.

   Lower Manhattan

   Lower Burgundy

4. (geology, of strata or geological time periods)Older.

• (antonym(s) of“more low”):higher
• (antonym(s) of“bottom”):upper
• (antonym(s) of“older”):upper

lower

1. comparative form oflow: morelow

lower (third-person singular simple presentlowers,present participlelowering,simple past and past participlelowered)

1. (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

   lower a bucket into a well

   tolower 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.

   • 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: New level-crossing signs”, inTrains Illustrated, page519:

     At level crossings where there are to be half-barriers, train-operated through track-circuiting, the barriers will be timed tolower fully about five seconds before the fastest train can reach the crossing.

2. (transitive) To pull down

   tolower a flag

3. (transitive) To reduce the height of

   lower a fence or wall

   lower a chimney or turret

4. (transitive) To depress as to direction

   lower the aim of a gun

5. (transitive) To make less elevated

   tolower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes

6. (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

   lower the temperature

   lower one's vitality

   lower distilled liquors

   Pleaselower your voices. This is a library.

7. (transitive) To bring down; to humble

   lower one's pride

8. (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

   I could neverlower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.

9. (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.

   lower the price of goods

   lower the interest rate

10. (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

    The riverlowered as rapidly as it rose.

11. (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
12. (computing,transitive) To reduceoperations to singlemachine instructions, as part ofcompilation of aprogram.

• (let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail): bring down
• (reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney):shorten
• (depress as to direction, as a gun):
• (make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes):reduce
• (reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature):reduce,turn down
• (transitive: to humble):
• (reflexive: to humble oneself): be humble
• (reduce (something) in value, amount, etc):cut,reduce
• (intransitive: grow less):die off,drop,fall,fall off,shrink
• (intransitive: decrease in value): become/get smaller, become/get lower,lessen,reduce

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈlaʊə/,/ˈlaʊ.ə/

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈlaʊɚ/,/ˈlaʊ.ɚ/
• Rhymes:-aʊ.ə(ɹ)

lower (third-person singular simple presentlowers,present participlelowering,simple past and past participlelowered)

1. Alternative spelling oflour
   • c.1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare],The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London:[…]Valentine Sims [andPeter Short] forAndrew Wise, […], published1597,→OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes thatlowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.

   • 1700,[John] Dryden, “Homer’sIlias”, inFables Ancient and Modern; […], London:[…]Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC, book I,page215:

     [...]Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſatlowring on her Face.

   • 1846,R[obert] S[tephen] Hawker, “The Wreck”, inEchoes from Old Cornwall, London: Joseph Masters, […],→OCLC, stanza X,page76:

     And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliestlowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!

• loweringly

• Worle,owler,rowel

FromOld Norselágr, fromProto-Germanic*lēgaz.

• IPA^(key):[léʊːɐ],[lɑ́ʊːɐ]

lower m

1. low