English Dictionary

low

/ləʊ/

adv

Close to the ground. / Of a pitch, at a lower frequency. / With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently. / Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply. / In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.

The cat walked low to the ground.

意味（1）

Close to the ground.

意味（2）

Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.

Can sing both high and low.

意味（3）

With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.

to speak low

意味（4）

Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.

He sold his wheat low.

意味（5）

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.

意味（6）

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.

意味（7）

(astronomy) 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.