Lower

Definition

lower 1 / 'lǝƱǝ(r) / adj ေအာက္။ ေအာက္ထပ္။ one’s lower lip/jaw ❍ the lower deck of a ship. Compare UPPER, LOW 1 ၆ ❏ lower case n [U] (အကၡရာပံု) အေသး။ lower-case lettering. Compare UPPER CASE ❏ Lower House (also Lower Chamber ) n (လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္ရပ္တြင္ ေရြးေကာက္ခံအမတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ၊ ဦးေရ ပိုမ်ားေသာ) ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္။ eg the House of Commons in Britain or the House of Representatives in the USA. lower 2 / 'lǝƱǝ(r) / v ၁။ (က) ေအာက္သို႔ခ်(ေပး)သည္။ ထိုင္ခ်သည္။ ေအာက္စိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ ခ်သည္။ lower supplies from a helicopter to the stranded men ❍ She lowered herself slowly into a chair. He lowered his newspaper and looked round. ❍ lower one’s eyes/gaze (ie look down) ❍ lower a flag / window. (ခ) ႏိွမ့္သည္။ ခ်သည္။ lower (the height of) the ceiling. ၂။ ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ ေလ်ာ့ေစသည္။ က်ေစသည္။ lower one’s voice to a whisper. ❍ A poor diet lowers one’s resistance to illness. ❍ Stocks lowered in value. ၃။ ~ oneself (by doing sth) ( infml ) (esp in negative sentences) ဂုဏ္သိကၡာနိမ့္က်ေစသည္။ ေအာက္က် ခံသည္။ ေအာက္က်ဳိ႕သည္။ Don’t lower yourself by asking him for help. lower 3 (also lour ) / 'laƱǝ(r) / v (မိုးတိမ္မ်ား) နိမ့္က်လာသည္။ (မိုးေမွာင္)က်သည္။ Huge clouds lowered over the bay.

Examples

1. The upper and lower lips
2. The lower floors of the building
3. The lower ranks of the army