| 单词 | lower |
| 释义 | lower (once / 47 pages) 1vn 2v To lower is to move something downward. When you go to sleep at night, you lower your head onto your pillow (unless you are a horse; in that case, you don't lower anything and sleep standing up). After cleaning your house's gutters, you'll climb down, lower the ladder, and put it away. After you've raised your hand in class and been called on, you will lower your hand again. Another way to lower something is to decrease the volume: "Will you please lower the sound on the TV? It's way too loud!" A less common meaning of lower is to scowl or glower, or to look stormy and dark. WORD FAMILYlower: lowered, lowering, lowermost, lowers+/low: lowed, lower, lowest, lowing, lowness, lows/lowering: loweringly, lowerings/lowest: lowests/lowness: lownesses USAGE EXAMPLESSharfstein said statewide efforts also lowered Maryland’s relatively high infant mortality rate. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) However, our modern, sedentary lifestyles mean that our secondary hearts tend to weaken, which permits excessive fluid pooling into the lower body. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Solution: Bitpesa uses Bitcoin to significantly lower the time and cost of remittances and and business payments to and from sub-Saharan Africa. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v move something or somebody to a lower position Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper bring down, get down, let down, take down bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise raise from a lower to a higher position reef lower and bring partially inboard depresslower (prices or markets) diplower briefly inclinelower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 2v set lower lower a rating lower expectations Syn|Hypo|Hyper lour derate lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus subdue, subordinatemake subordinate, dependent, or subservient devalue lower the value or quality of 3v cause to drop or sink Syn|Hyper depress alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 4v make lower or quieter Syn|Hyper lour, turn down decrease, lessen, minify make smaller 5n the lower of two berths 2Syn|Hyper lower berth berth, built in bed, bunk a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers v look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval Syn|Hypo|Hyper frown, glower, lour scowl frown with displeasure grimace, make a face, pull a face contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state |
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