lower
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[ verb ] move something or somebody to a lower position
Synonyms Examples "take down the vase from the shelf" Used in print (Mr. America, 4:6...)Before your first training experiment has ended there will be a big improvement and almost before you know it you 'll be raising and lowering yourself just like a veteran ! (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)This anomalous status of the educator cannot fail to lower his standing in the eyes of the students . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He did not lower his arm . Harry_Hawk had not shifted position , but he at_last lowered his arm . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Pullen_James humbly lowered his head , pushed_aside the hardtack box door of the hut , and was gone from sight . |
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[ verb ] set lower
Synonyms Examples "lower a rating" "lower expectations" Used in print (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)During a round of target_practice the sun comes from behind a cloud and dazzles the marksman , lowering his chance of a bull's-eye . |
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[ adjective ] inferior in rank or status
Examples "the junior faculty" "a lowly corporal" "petty officialdom" "a subordinate functionary" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)First , the girl 's education has a lower priority than the son 's . (James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)Undoubtedly far more can be done in the lower grades in this regard in the Negro schools . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] inferior in rank or status
Examples "the junior faculty" "a lowly corporal" "petty officialdom" "a subordinate functionary" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] the bottom one of two
Examples "he chose the lower number" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)These are fluids which one would expect to be less viscoelastic or more Newtonian because of their lower molecular_weight . There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed_out , and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear , so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)An isotropic resonance shift of **f to lower applied fields indicates a weak isotropic hyperfine contact interaction . The **f layers are stacked normal to the [ 111 ] axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer , in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers . The **f layers are stacked normal to the [ 111 ] axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer , in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7394
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