Billow vs Below - What's the difference?
billow | below |
A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
* Cowper
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* 1922 , :
To surge or roll in billows
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
To swell out or bulge
Lower in spatial position than.
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, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
Lower in value, price, rank or concentration than.
* Addison
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South of.
Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
* (John Milton)
* Hallam
(stage directions) Downstage of.
* 1952 , (Frederick Knott), , 1954 (Dramatists Play Service) acting edition, act 1, scene 1:
In a lower place.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
On a lower storey.
Further down.
(lb) On a lower deck.
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(lb) Below zero.
As a noun billow
is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.As a verb billow
is to surge or roll in billows.As a preposition below is
lower in spatial position than.As an adverb below is
in a lower place.billow
English
Noun
(en noun)- whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
- And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
- Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?
Verb
(en verb)- During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
References
below
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- one degree below kings
Philip J. Bushnell, magazine=(American Scientist)
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
- They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, how below all history the persons and their actions were.
- who thinks no fact below his regard
- Below the sofa is a low, round coffee table.
