Main entry: first, first gear, low, low gear
Definition: the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
Main entry: low
Definition: a low level or position or degree
Usage: the stock market fell to a new low
Main entry: Low, David Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil Low, Sir David Low
Definition: British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
Main entry: low, depression
Definition: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
Usage: a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow
Definition: make a low noise, characteristic of bovines
Main entry: down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dispirited, depressed, low, low-spirited, grim, gloomy, blue
Definition: filled with melancholy and despondency
Usage: gloomy at the thought of what he had to face; gloomy predictions; a gloomy silence; took a grim view of the economy; the darkening mood; lonely and blue in a strange city; depressed by the loss of his job; a dispirited and resigned expression on her face; downcast after his defeat; feeling discouraged and downhearted
Main entry: abject, scummy, scurvy, low, low-down, miserable
Definition: of the most contemptible kind
Usage: abject cowardice; a low stunt to pull; a low-down sneak; his miserable treatment of his family; You miserable skunk!; a scummy rabble; a scurvy trick
Main entry: low
Definition: literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
Usage: low ceilings; low clouds; low hills; the sun is low; low furniture; a low bow
Main entry: low
Definition: less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
Usage: low prices; the reservoir is low
Main entry: low, low-pitched
Definition: used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
Definition: very low in volume
Usage: a low murmur; the low-toned murmur of the surf
Main entry: humbled, humiliated, crushed, broken, low
Definition: subdued or brought low in condition or status
Usage: brought low; a broken man; his broken spirit
Main entry: low
Definition: unrefined in character
Usage: low comedy
Definition: no longer sufficient
Usage: supplies are low; our funds are depleted
Main entry: humble, small, low, lowly, modest
Definition: low or inferior in station or quality
Usage: a humble cottage; a lowly parish priest; a modest man of the people; small beginnings
Main entry: low
Definition: in a low position; near the ground
Usage: the branches hung low