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# lower

«lower» in Mova's school dictionary: **less high, closer to the ground, or at the bottom of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (lower, comparative of low; lowest); verb (lower, lowers, lowered, lowering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lower means less high, closer to the ground, or at the bottom of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#m1)

2) Lower means smaller in number, amount or level. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#m2)

3) To lower something means to move it down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#m3)

4) To lower something like a price, sound or voice means to make it less. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#m4)

5) Lower can also describe social rank, meaning belonging to the group of people with less money and power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, «lower» means smaller: 5 is lower than 8; a lower temperature is colder; «lower case» letters are the small letters (a, b, c), and «capital» or «upper case» letters are big. In geography, the lower part of a river is near the sea. In everyday life «lower your voice» means speak more quietly; shops lower prices in a sale. In safety, lower heavy objects slowly and carefully with bent knees.

### examples

- Write your name in lower-case letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x1)
- The temperature is lower at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x2)
- 12 is lower than 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x3)
- Lower the bucket into the well slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x4)
- Please lower your voice in the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x5)
- The shop lowered its prices in the sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x6)
- The lower shelf is for the little ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x7)
- My lower lip is cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/#x8)

### note

Comparative of «low»: low, lower, lowest. In maths, «lower» = smaller, so «a lower score» has fewer points; but in golf a lower score wins. «Lower case» = small letters. Opposite: «higher», «upper»; as a verb, «raise». Pronounced LOH-er (rhymes with «slower»).

### In the corpora

- [A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/18/)
- [A sale lowers prices; a bargain is only a bargain if you would have bought the thing anyway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/13/)
- [Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/16/)
- [Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/0/)
- [In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.