Definition of "lower" in English

adjective

1. 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. (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Older.

adverb

1. 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.

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. (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.

noun

1. A bicycle suspension fork component.