low

adjektiivi

matala; alhainen; pieni korkeus tai taso.
Pöydän jalat ovat matalat, joten se on helppo siirtää.

Synonyymisanakirja

low

matala, baritoni-, basso-, tumma, käheä, sävelkorkeus.

Mitä tarkoittaa

Sana 'low' tarkoittaa usein alhaista sijaintia tai tasoa verrattuna ympäröivään kontekstiin. Se voi viitata fyysisiin ominaisuuksiin, kuten matalaan korkeuteen, tai abstrakteihin käsitteisiin, kuten alhaiseen arvostukseen tai laatuun. Esimerkiksi matala ääni voi viitata äänitasoon, joka on vähäisempi kuin tavanomainen, kun taas alhaiset hinnat voivat tarkoittaa, että tuote on edullinen. 'Low' voi myös esiintyä monissa idiomeissa ja sanonnoissa, joissa se ilmentää heikkoutta tai väheksyntää.

Käännökset

englanti

alhainen

halpa

matala

ammua In a position comparatively close to the ground.
Small in height.
Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
depressed Depressed, sad.

low spirits

I felt low at Christmas with no family to celebrate with.

Not high in amount or quantity.

Food prices are lower in a supermarket than in a luxury department store.

(quote-magazine)
Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.

(ux)

Quiet; soft; not loud.
Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.

a person of low mind

a low trick or stratagem

Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.

a low pulse

made low by sickness

Being near the equator.

the low northern latitudes

Humble in character or status.
Milton
Felton
Simple in complexity or development.
Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
puhekieltä Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
puhekieltä Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.

a low diet

Something that is low; a low point.

You have achieved a new low in behavior, Frank.

''Economic growth has hit a new low.

A depressed mood or situation.

He is in a low right now

puhekieltä An area of low pressure; a depression.
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.

puhekieltä The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
(slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.

He got the brand new Yankees jersey for the low.

Close to the ground.
Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
Shakespeare
With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.

to speak low

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

He sold his wheat low.

In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
(quote-journal) (Sport)|date=21 October 2014|passage=But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through (w)'s w:Poetics (Aristotle)|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.
In a time approaching our own.
John Locke
puhekieltä 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.

puhekieltä To depress; to lower.

(rfquotek)

(form of).
puhekieltä To moo.

The cattle were lowing.

Gray
puhekieltä A flame; fire; blaze.
puhekieltä To burn; to blaze.
puhekieltä barrowEnglish Barrow, mound, tumulus.

A barrow or Low, such as were usually cast up over the bodies of eminent Captains. (Robert Plot, The natural history of Staffordshire, 1686; cited after OED).

puhekieltä A hill.

And some they brought the brown lint-seed, and flung it down from the Low. (Mary Howitt, Ballads and other poems 1847)

puhekieltä vulgar; low; inferior
to allow, permit
to justify

Riimisanakirja

low rimmaa näiden kanssa:

bungalow

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Läheisiä sanoja

lovi, lovinen, lovittaa, lovitus, LP-levy, lubenter approbatur

low