lower
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- adjective
- /ˈloʊər/
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inferior
- The girl picked up her backpack from the lower shelf of the closet.
- lower level
- lower side
- lower river
It, it, let's see, it's down in the lower left there.
- It, it, let's see, it's down in the lower left there.
- So upper neighbor, lower neighbor after the first line.
- They have to have buildings that are lower than Muslim buildings.
- Small back, small lower back, long back, small lower back, hairy, dirt ground beef.
Examples
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The new principal at Red Oak Lower School comes to services at Mr. Laurel.
Fiction book (1996) -
So we're going to begin down in the lower left corner.
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So we live in this lower left hand corner.
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There it is now we want lower back, lower back.
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So they might be a bit lower in combat areas.
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Here is a lower lip that I made.
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Lower in suburbs than in the city. Lower in the city than in the suburbs.
Academic text (2008) -
I'm starting to feel it cooling my lower legs now.
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The house at Seventy-Seven Lower Lane was in a neighborhood much like our own.
Fiction book (1991) -
"C'mon, Max, you remember: Lower East Side, the antique shop off Canal Street."
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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At the lowest or deepest level
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At the very bottom of something
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Lowest in a pile or on a shelf
In the lowest position under all other parts
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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Choose smaller goals that are easier to reach when big ones feel impossible
Compounds
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Having a modest income and social position in the lower part of the middle class
- Specialized
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The part of a ship below the main floor where crew sleep or store things
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Part of the breathing system that includes the lungs and big air tubes
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An early part of the Carboniferous period about 345 to 310 million years ago
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An early part of the Carboniferous when primitive winged insects and early amphibians appear
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A very early time in human history when people first used simple stone tools like hand axes
The larger southern part of the state of Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
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An infection in the lungs or large airways that causes cough and fever
The northern part of ancient Egypt around the Nile delta where the land is very fertile
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A deep, solid layer inside the Earth above the outer core, about 660 to 2,900 km below the surface
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A sample from the lungs placed on a slide to look for infection or cancer
A river in Siberia that starts north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west into the Yenisei River
How Low
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lower is the comparative of low, which means 'not high', so lower means 'more low' or 'below'. That's why we use lower to describe things nearer the bottom, like a lower shelf or floor.