lower

adj

1. (comparative, form-of)comparative form of low: more low
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. Older.

adv

1. (comparative, form-of)comparative form of low: more low

verb

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

   “lower a bucket into a well”

   “to lower 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.”

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

2. (transitive)To pull down

   “to lower 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

   “to lower 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”

   “Please lower 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 never lower 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 river lowered as rapidly as it rose.”

11. (intransitive)To decrease in value, amount, etc.
12. (transitive)To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
13. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of lour.

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

    “[...] Juno took her place: / But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.”

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

noun

1. A bicycle suspension fork component.

name

1. A surname.