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below

[bih-loh]

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adverb

in or toward a lower place: Look out below!

on, in, or toward a lower level, as a lower deck of a ship: The captain of the ship went below.

beneath the surface of the water: Divers were sent below to view the wreck.

on earth: the fate of creatures here below.

in hell or the infernal regions.

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at a later point on a page or in a text: See the illustration below. Compare above (def. 5).

in a lower rank or grade: He was demoted to the class below.

under zero on the temperature scale: The temperature in Buffalo was ten below this morning.

Theater. downstage. Compare above (def. 8).

10.

Zoology. on the lower or ventral side.

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preposition

11.

lower down than: below the knee.

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lower in rank, degree, amount, rate, etc., than: below cost; below freezing.

13.

too low or undignified to be worthy of; beneath: He considered such an action below his notice.

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Theater. downstage of: There are two chairs below the table.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English bilooghe, equivalent to bi- by (see be-) + looghe low¹

Synonyms
11. Below, under, beneath indicate position in some way lower than something else. Below implies being in a lower plane: below the horizon, the water line. Under implies being lower in a perpendicular line: The book is under the chair. Beneath may have a meaning similar to below, but more usually denotes being under so as to be covered, overhung, or overtopped: the pool beneath the falls.

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For some banks, share prices are at or below the credit crisis lows.

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Click on the map below to see highlights of this walking tour.

Unless otherwise noted, the compounds mentioned below are in the early stages of human testing.

But the chasm is only slowly yielding clues to the ancient peoples who lived below the.

Letters following the blends listed below indicate seed sources.

The reason they are smooth is the thermal structure right below them.

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Current rates, he says, are below replacement levels and are unsustainable.

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If your income falls below a certain level, you're.

The table below summarises the measures used to calculate the rankings together with their respective weightings.

Adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water's surface.

As a result, social anxiety sufferers often wind up unemployed or in jobs below their training level.

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Letters following each listing refer to sources listed below.

The codes are all secret languages used by people living below the law in various.

Hover over the dots on the map below to highlight the destinations of that program's graduates.

Even in the dominant energy sector, foreign investment will be below potential.

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Tangled, ghostly limbs barely tickle the water's surface from below.

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That's because during their hibernation in arctic climates, they can cool their body to below freezing and still survive.

Hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas are in the rock below.

Some higher-income countries, such as the oil producers, tend to perform below their peers.

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The plan is familiar: park an antenna high in the stratosphere and then relay signals to and from devices below.

From time to time eagles fly past, following the course of the river below.

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The upside is that there seems to be a lot of slick tech stuff that goes for far, far, below the retail.

Chile's economy has recently seemed oddly lacklustre, with growth below the regional average and inflation stubbornly high.

Below the asthenosphere lies another layer, stronger and more solid than the asthenosphere.

The leaves of the upper canopy intercept raindrops and reduce their impact on vegetation and butterflies below.

Slivers of sunlight pierced the morning fog, revealing in the blue-green waters below the two ships.

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Below that is a display of breast implantation tools.

Below is her letter, with a few minor changes to protect confidential material.

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Hold the orange slightly above or below the bulb, and don't look directly at the lamp.

The absurdity of dangling from a single rope far above the ferns below was put into perspective quickly.

The chart below shows the area that will be covered by a particular number of plants set out at various spacings.

They shine because they are so high they remain lit by the sun even after it has gone below the horizon.

The list below identifies those proposals to which amendments have been suggested.

So click below for activities that help us learn about fresh water and ways to conserve this precious resource.

The instructions below the steroscopic pair of photos of moon grain may not be correct.

It was brightly lit, and the temperature within was a degree or two below freezing.

When temperatures threaten to dip below zero, bring the container into the garage or wrap it in a frost blanket.

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But the average return was below the returns of the major stock and bond indexes commonly used to measure investment performance.

Use scissors to cut out the animal picture squares below.

Mars has no shortage of water in the form of ice buried below the surface.

I've given distances below in kilometers so you can follow along with your rental-car odometer.

Do a thorough fall cleanup and remove all debris from the ground below trees.

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Below it, sweeping lines run through generously spaced hemlocks.

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Several caves offer guided tours for visitors venturing to step below the surface and.

The shelves below the beds hold toys, games, and books.

There are fears, however, that the gaseous water below could force liquid back up the borehole faster and farther than expected.

One hint to the sea's long-term history is that it lies below sea level.

The monkeys carried on with their morning meal, oblivious to the three apes below.

If the enemy was scaling the walls, soldiers could drop rocks or boiling oil down through the holes and onto the enemy below.

Click small drawing below to see the raised bed plan.

Screen the reel above and let us know in the comments below if the imagery tickled or tortured your lobes.

Tell us what you think using the comments section below.

Picture yourself in front of a television screen that has an electronic typewriter built in below it.

It also falls freely from cut lilies onto whatever carpet or tablecloth happens to be below the vase.

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Notice how the brick-lined arcades match the train tunnel below.

Secure the foam plug in place with pieces of scrap wood from below.

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Storage cellars-indicated by dense caches of objects in the dirt below some of the buildings-held the village's surplus.

Varieties described below are female unless otherwise noted.

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Both the steps and piers were finished below the waterline with rough-textured black plaster.

They then cooled the system down to temperatures below one-tenth of a kelvin.

It is somewhat tender?most varieties suffer damage when temperatures dip below the teens.

The addition of weight below and behind the center of gravity reduces those ill effects by offsetting the baby's load.

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Corals under temperature stress blanch, expelling symbiotic algae that hide the white skeletons below them.

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World English Dictionary

below (bɪˈləʊ)

—*prep*
1.	at or to a position lower than; under
2.	less than in quantity or degree
3.	south of
4.	downstream of
5.	unworthy of; beneath

—*adv*
6.	at or to a lower position or place
7.	at a later place (in something written): see below
8.	archaic beneath heaven; on earth or in hell

[C14: bilooghe, from biby + looghelow¹]

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Word Origin & History

below

early 14c., biloogh, from be- "by" + logh, lou, lowe "low." Apparently a variant of earlier a-lowe (influenced by other advs. in be-, cf. before), the parallel form to an-high (now on high). Beneath was the usual word; below was very rare in M.E. and only gained currency

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in 16c. It is frequent in Shakespeare. Below is the opposite of above and concerns difference of level and suggests comparison of independent things. Under is the opposite of over and is concerned with superposition and subjection and suggests some interrelation.

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