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adj
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- Less than.
- Within the category, classification or heading of.
- Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
- Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
- (figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with.
- Below the surface of.
- Subject to.
- From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
noun
adj
- Lower; beneath something.
- In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
- (informal) Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
- (medicine, colloquial) Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- located below or beneath something else
- lower in rank, power, or authority
adv
- Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- (informal) In or into an unconscious state.
- So as to pass beneath something.
- (usually in compounds) Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient.
- below the horizon
- below some quantity or limit
- further down
- down to defeat, death, or ruin
- down below
- in or into a state of subordination or subjugation
- through a range downward
- into unconsciousness
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- (idiomatic, chiefly in the positive, rare) Not to mention, as well as; used after one item, to introduce a further item which is entailed by the first.
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) Much less; to say nothing of; used after one negative clause to introduce another, usually broader and more important clause, whose negation is implied by the negation of the first. However either of these instances mentioned can be applied with the use of let alone.
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- the least possible
- (music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
- (art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
- The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- (mathematics, technical) Among elements of some collection, such that no other element is greater (with respect to some given partial order).
noun
adj
noun
- the smallest possible quantity
- the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right
- (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
- (mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
- The lowest limit.
- The smallest amount.
adv
adj
noun
noun
- A lessening, decrease or reduction.
- (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
- The act or process of making diminutive.
- the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)
- change toward something smaller or lower
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
adj
adj
- lessened, reduced
- (music) reduced by a semitone
- made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
- (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
- impaired by diminution
- (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
verb
noun
- a lower limit
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
adj
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
verb
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
noun
- a lower limit
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
verb
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
adv
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
verb
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- (automotive, cycling) To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- (automotive, cycling) To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
noun
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- (automotive, cycling) A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
adj
- lesser in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- warranting only temporal punishment
- inferior in number or size or amount
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges.
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
noun
- a young person of either sex
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
- (graph theory) Short for graph minor
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
verb
adj
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- not having a protective covering
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- having everything extraneous removed including contents
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- lacking its natural or customary covering
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- having no clothes on the body
- lacking a surface finish such as paint
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- (MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- Having no supplies.
- Threadbare, very worn.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- Having no decoration.
- Naked, uncovered.
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- Not insured.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
verb
adv
noun
adj
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- at or constituting a border or edge
- of questionable or minimal quality
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
noun
adj
- Capable of being reduced.
- (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
- (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
- (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
- capable of being reduced
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- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
adj
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noun
- A lessening, decrease or reduction.
- (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
- The act or process of making diminutive.
- the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)
- change toward something smaller or lower
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
noun
- a lower limit
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
adj
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
verb
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
noun
- a lower limit
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
verb
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
prep
- Less than.
- Within the category, classification or heading of.
- Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
- Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
- (figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with.
- Below the surface of.
- Subject to.
- From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
noun
adj
- Lower; beneath something.
- In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
- (informal) Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
- (medicine, colloquial) Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- located below or beneath something else
- lower in rank, power, or authority
adv
- Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- (informal) In or into an unconscious state.
- So as to pass beneath something.
- (usually in compounds) Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient.
- below the horizon
- below some quantity or limit
- further down
- down to defeat, death, or ruin
- down below
- in or into a state of subordination or subjugation
- through a range downward
- into unconsciousness
noun
adv
conj
det
prep
verb
adj
verb
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- (automotive, cycling) To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- (automotive, cycling) To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
noun
- A change of direction or a movement downwards.
- A reduction in quality or quantity.
- (automotive, cycling) A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
- A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
adv
adv
verb
conj
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the positive, rare) Not to mention, as well as; used after one item, to introduce a further item which is entailed by the first.
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) Much less; to say nothing of; used after one negative clause to introduce another, usually broader and more important clause, whose negation is implied by the negation of the first. However either of these instances mentioned can be applied with the use of let alone.
adv
prep_phrase
adv
adj
noun
adv
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
adj
adj
adj
- the least possible
- (music) Characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.
- (art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
- The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
- (mathematics, technical) Among elements of some collection, such that no other element is greater (with respect to some given partial order).
noun
adj
noun
- the smallest possible quantity
- the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right
- (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
- (mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
- The lowest limit.
- The smallest amount.
adj
adj
- lessened, reduced
- (music) reduced by a semitone
- made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
- (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
- impaired by diminution
- (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
verb
adj
- lesser in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- warranting only temporal punishment
- inferior in number or size or amount
- not of legal age
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges.
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
noun
- a young person of either sex
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
- (graph theory) Short for graph minor
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
verb
adj
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- not having a protective covering
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- having everything extraneous removed including contents
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- lacking its natural or customary covering
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- having no clothes on the body
- lacking a surface finish such as paint
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- (MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- Having no supplies.
- Threadbare, very worn.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- Having no decoration.
- Naked, uncovered.
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- Not insured.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
verb
adv
noun
adj
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- at or constituting a border or edge
- of questionable or minimal quality
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
noun
adj
- Capable of being reduced.
- (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
- (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
- (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
- capable of being reduced
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verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.