Below
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /bɪˈləʊ/
- US IPA: /bɪˈloʊ/
- Hyphenation: be + low
Full definition of below
Preposition
- Lower in spatial position than.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 4, One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
- The treasure is buried two meters below the surface.
- Lower in value, price, rank or concentration than.
- Addisonone degree below kings
- 2013, Philip J. Bushnell, Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
- The temperature is below zero.
- Downstream of.
- South of.
- Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
- John MiltonThey beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, ... how below all history the persons and their actions were.
- Hallamwho thinks no fact below his regard
- Such petty behavior is below me.
- (stage directions) Downstage of.
- 1952, Frederick Knott, Dial M for Murder, 1954 Dramatists Play Service acting edition, act 1, scene 1:Below the sofa is a low, round coffee table.
Synonyms
- (lower in spatial position than) beneath, under, underneath
- (lower in value than) under
- (downstream of) downstream
- (unsuitable to the rank or dignity of) beneath
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Adverb
below
- In a lower place.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher Chapter 1, But then I had the massive flintlock by me for protection. ¶...The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,....
- On a lower storey.
- Further down.
- (nautical) On a lower deck.the landlubbers lying down below
- (of a temperature) Below zero.
Synonyms
- (in a lower place) beneath, under, underneath
- (on a lower storey) downstairs
- (farther down) downwards