Lower vs Bower - What's the difference?
lower | bower |
(low)
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
to pull down
To reduce the height of
To depress as to direction
To make less elevated
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
To bring down; to humble
(reflexive) (lower oneself ) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
To decrease in value, amount, etc.
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
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, chapter=1 (ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
* Spenser
As an adjective lower
is (low).As an adverb lower
is .As a verb lower
is to let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down or lower can be .As a proper noun bower is
.lower
English
Etymology 1
From (low) +Adjective
(head)Antonyms
* (more low) higher * (bottom) upper * (older) upperAdverb
(head)Verb
(en verb)- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
- to lower a flag
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love / Down to a silent grave. .
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
- lower the aim of a gun
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
- lower one's pride
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
Synonyms
* bring down * shorten * * reduce * reduce, turn down * * be humble * cut, reduce * die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink * become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduceEtymology 2
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*bower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
- (Shenstone)
- say that thou overheard'st us,
- And bid her steal into the pleached bower ,
- Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,
- Forbid the sun to enter;
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Synonyms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.Derived terms
* best bower * left bower * right bowerEtymology 4
From the bow of a shipNoun
(en noun)- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.