low
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英 /ˈləʊ/
美 /ˈloʊ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
— You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.
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Barrow, mound, tumulus.
— A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains.
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A flame; fire; blaze.
— She was, as one of them expressed himself, in a light low (bright flame) when they observed a king's ship, with her colours up, heave in sight from behind the cape. The guns of the burning vessel discharged themselves […]
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A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).; The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
— Today's low was 32 °F.
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A hill.
— And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low.
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A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
— He is in a low right now. the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
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An area of low pressure; a depression.
— A deep low is centred over the British Isles.
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The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
— Shift out of low before the car gets to eight miles per hour.
- The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
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A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
— He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.
动词 v.
- simple past of laugh.
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To lower; to make low.
— I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […]
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To moo.
— The cattle were lowing.
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To burn; to blaze.
— Driest wood will eithest low,
- Alternative form of 'low.
形容词 adj.
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Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
— standing on low ground
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Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.; Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
— the low countries
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Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.; Below the batter's knees.
— the pitch (or: the ball) was low
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Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
— a low bow
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Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.; Low-cut.
— Again, observe the unmeaningness of the low neck fashion. Our mothers wore low dresses and bare arms all day long; they knew if their shoulders and arms were beautiful they would look as well by daylight as by candlelight; […]
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Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
— low birth
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Humble, meek, not haughty.
— God loves an humble soul. It is not our high birth, but our low hearts God delights in.
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Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
— She had a low opinion of cats. He took a low view of dogs.
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Being a nadir, a bottom.
— the low point in her career
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Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
— low spirits
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Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
— a low pulse
- Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.; Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
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Dead. (Compare lay low.)
— And wilt thou weep when I am low?
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Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
— My credit union charges a low interest rate. Jogging during a whiteout, with such low temperatures and low visibility, is dangerous. The store sold bread at low prices, and milk at even lower prices. The contractors gave a low estimate of the costs. low cholesterol a low voltage wire a low number
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Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).; Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
— diets low in vitamin A
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Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).; Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
— running low on cash
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Simple in complexity or development.
— low protozoan animals, low cryptogamic plants, and other low organisms
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Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
— Among them there was none more low, more pious, more sincere, or more given to interference. To teach Mr. Worth his duty as a parish clergyman was evidently a necessity to such a bishop.
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Being near the equator.
— the low northern latitudes
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Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
— The note was too low for her to sing.
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Quiet; soft; not loud.
— They spoke in low voices so I would not hear what they were saying.
- Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
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Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
— a low card
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Not rich or seasoned; offering the minimum of nutritional requirements; plain, simple.
— The Physicians ordered a low diet, and cooling ptisans in great abundance.
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Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
— low gear
副词 adv.
- Close to the ground.
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Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
— Can sing both high and low.
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With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
— to speak low
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Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
— He sold his wheat low.
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In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
— But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
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In a time approaching our own.
— In that part of the world which was first inhabited, […] even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.
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In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
— The moon runs low, i.e. comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
词形变化
词汇关系
衍生词
alow
at a low ebb
Bowland Forest Low
bring low
come low
could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
cutoff low
down-low
down low
extremely low frequency
fly low
friends in low places
hang low
high and low
High and Low Bishopside
highlow
high-low
high-low split
Holme Low
I have low blood pressure
infralow
keep a low profile
Kilburn High and Low
lilly-low
low-alcohol
low-altitude
low and behold
low and slow
Low Angerton
low back
low-background
low-background lead
low-background steel
low back merger
lowball
low-beam
lowbell
low-bell
Low Bentham
lowbie
low block
low blow
low-boiling
low bono
lowboy
low breathing
low bridge
low-brow
lowbrow
low-budget
lowbush
low C
low-cal
low-caloric
low-calorie
low camp
low-carb
low-carber
low-ceilinged
Low Church
low-class
low-code
low comedy
Low Coniscliffe
low-context
low-context culture
low context culture
low-cost
low cost carrier
low-cost carrier
Low Countries
Lowcountry
low-crowned seahorse
lowcut
low decile
low definition
low-density
low-density lipoprotein
Low Dinsdale
low-doc loan
low-dose CT scanning
low-down
lowdown
Low Dutch
low Earth orbit
low-effort syndrome
low-emission
low-end
lower
lowest of the low
low exercise price option
low explosive
low fantasy
low-fat
Low Fell
low fidelity
low-fidelity
low five
low-floor
low Fowler's
low-functioning
low-functioning autism
low gear
Low German
Lowgill
Low Gill
low-grade
low grade
low-grade fever
low-growing
low-hangers
low hangers
lowhanging
low-hanging fruit
low hanging fruit
Low Harrogate
low-hat
low-hearted
lowhearted
low-heartedly
low-heartedness
low-heeled
Low Hill
low hundreds
low-impact
low-income
low-info
low-information
low-IQ
lowish
Low Island
lowkey
low key
low-key
low-keyed
low-keyness
Low Kilburn
lowland
Lowlands
Low Latin
low-level
low-level language
lowlife
low-life
low life
lowlight
low line
lowline
lowling
low-lived
low loader
lowly
low-maintenance
low-masking
low mass
low mass star
low-melting
low milling
lowminded
low-minded
low-mindedly
low-mindedness
Low Moor
low-necked
lowness
low-noise block downconverter
low-octane
low on the totem pole
low-paid
low-pass
lowpass
low-performance
low-pitched
low point
low politics
low post
low post area
low-power
low-powered
low-pressure
low profile
low-profile
low-proof
low-quality
low-rank
low relief
low-rent
low-res
low-residency
low-resolution
Low Rhenish
lowrider
lowriding
low-rise
low rise
low-risk
low road
Low Row
Low Saxon
low season
low-seeded
low side
low-sided
low side window
low-skilled
low-slope roof
low-sock
lowsome
low-speed
low-spirited
low-spiritedness
low spirits
lowstand
low-status
low steel
Low Street
low-studded
low-sulphur
low-sulfur
low-sun
Low Sunday
low-support
low surrogate
low-T
low-tar
low tea
low-tech
low technology
low-temperature
low temperature flexibility
low-tension
lowth
low-thoughted
low thyroid
low tide
Low Town
Low Valleyfield
low-value
Lowveld
low-velocity
low water
low-water mark
low wine
low wire
low-yield
low yo-yo
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
moral low ground
no and low
nonlow
Omaha high-low split
on the down-low
on the low
overlow
pisslow
racism of low expectations
semilow
soft bigotry of low expectations
sublow
superlow
Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby
ultralow
ultra low cost carrier
ultra low frequency
very low mass star
Aleutian Low
all-time low
Arctic low
cold-core low
cold low
Colorado low
Genoa low
heat low
hybrid low
Icelandic Low
Kona low
logic low
polar low
thermal low
upper-level low
wake low
warm-core low
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词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Proto-Germanic *lēgaz
Old Norse lágrbor.
Middle English lāh
English low
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Saterland Frisian läich (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”), German Low German leeg, leeg' (“low”), Danish lav (“low”), Faroese, Icelandic lágur (“low”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish låg (“low”). More at lie.
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Proto-Germanic *lēgaz
Old Norse lágrbor.
Middle English lāh
English low
From Middle English lowe, lohe, lāh, from Old Norse lágr (“low”), from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“lying, flat, situated near the ground, low”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Cognate with Scots laich (“low”), Saterland Frisian läich (“low”), West Frisian leech (“low”), Dutch laag (“low”), obsolete German läg (“low”), German Low German leeg, leeg' (“low”), Danish lav (“low”), Faroese, Icelandic lágur (“low”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish låg (“low”). More at lie.
词源 2
From Middle English lough, from Old English hlōh, first and third person singular preterite of hliehhan (“to laugh”). More at laugh.
词源 3
From Middle English lowen (“to low”), from Old English hlōwan (“to low; to bellow; to roar”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną (“to call; shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call”).
Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“to shout, claim”). More at claim.
Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“to shout, claim”). More at claim.
词源 4
From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”).
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at More at leye and More at light.
Cognate with Icelandic logi (“flame”), Swedish låga (“flame”), Danish lue (“flame”), German Lohe (“blaze, flames”), North Frisian leag (“fire, flame”), Old English līeġ (“fire, flame, lightning”). More at More at leye and More at light.
词源 5
From Old English hlāw, hlǣw (“burial mound”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw. Obsolete by the 19th century, survives in toponymy as -low.
词源 6
Apheretic form of allow.
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