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glower
English
Etymology 1
From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English gl?ren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Middle Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. See more at glare.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??la??(?)/
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
- Hyphenation: glow?er
Verb
glower (third-person singular simple present glowers, present participle glowering, simple past and past participle glowered)
- (intransitive) To look or stare with anger. [from late 15th c.]
Synonyms
- glare
- scowl
Translations
Noun
glower (plural glowers)
- An angry glare or stare. [from late 15th c.]
Alternative forms
- glour
- glowr (obsolete)
Synonyms
- glare
- scowl
Derived terms
- glowerer
- glowering (noun)
- gloweringly
Translations
See also
- frown
Etymology 2
From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l???(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??lo??(?)/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
- Hyphenation: glow?er
Noun
glower (plural glowers)
- That which glows or emits light.
References
Further reading
- Nernst glower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gowler, reglow
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lower
English
Etymology 1
low +? -er (comparative suffix)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l???/
- (US) IPA(key): /?lo??/
- Rhymes: -???(r)
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
Adjective
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
- bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
- Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
Antonyms
- (more low): higher
- (bottom): upper
- (older): upper
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
lower
- comparative form of low: more low
Verb
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- (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
- (transitive) to pull down
- to lower a flag
- 1833 (first publication), Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women
- Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love
Down to a silent grave.
- Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- lower the aim of a gun
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- lower one's pride
- (reflexive) (lower oneself) 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.
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
Synonyms
- (let (something) descend by its own weight, such as a bucket or sail): bring down
- (reduce the height of, as a fence or chimney): shorten
- (depress as to direction, as a gun):
- (make less elevated as to object, as ambitions or hopes): reduce
- (reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of, as temperature): reduce, turn down
- (transitive: to humble):
- (reflexive: to humble oneself): be humble
- (reduce (something) in value, amount, etc): cut, reduce
- (intransitive: grow less): die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink
- (intransitive: decrease in value): become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduce
Derived terms
- lower the boom
- lower the tone
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?la??/, /?la?.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?la??/, /?la?.?/
Verb
lower (third-person singular simple present lowers, present participle lowering, simple past and past participle lowered)
- Alternative spelling of lour
Related terms
- loweringly
Anagrams
- owler, rowel
Scanian
Etymology
From Old Norse lágr, from Proto-Germanic *l?gaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lé???], [l?????]
Adjective
lower m
- low
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