Lowered vs Dipped - What's the difference?
lowered | dipped |
(lower)
(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.
(dip)
That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
Of headlights: lowered.
(archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
*1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
*:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
As verbs the difference between lowered and dipped
is that lowered is past tense of lower while dipped is past tense of dip.As an adjective dipped is
that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.lowered
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.