below

below: /bi loh"/, adv.

1. in or toward a lower place: Look out below!

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

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

4. on earth: the fate of creatures here below.

5. in hell or the infernal regions.

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

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

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

9. Theat. downstage. Cf. above (def. 8).

10. Zool. on the lower or ventral side.

prep.

11. lower down than: below the knee.

12. 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.

14. Theat. downstage of: There are two chairs below the table.

[1275-1325; ME bilooghe, equiv. to bi- by (see BE-) + looghe LOW¹]

Syn. 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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Under, beneath, underneath, Under, beneath, underneath / Unbecoming, unworthy of, On the earth, in this world, in the present life, in time, in the world of sense / In hell, in the lower regions, in the under world, among the shades, in the world of the departed, in the regions of the dead

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below — below, under, beneath, underneath mean in a lower position relatively to some other object or place. Below (opposed to above) applies to something which is anywhere in a lower plane than the object of reference; under (opposed to over) to… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Below — can refer to any of the following: * Earth * Ground * Soil * Floor * Bottom * Less than * Temperatures below freezing * Hell or underworldPeople named Below include: *Fritz von Below (1853 1918), World War I general *Otto von Below (1857 1944),… … Wikipedia
below — below, beneath, under These three words appear to be synonymous, but many contexts call for one in preference to another. Beneath is somewhat more literary in use. Under in its physical sense is rather more literal than the other two: under the… … Modern English usage
Below — Be*low , prep. [Pref. be by + low.] 1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. One degree… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Below — Be*low , adv. 1. In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. [1913 Webster] Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. [1913 Webster] The fairest child of Jove… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
below — index a savoir Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 below … Law dictionary
Below — Below, 1) [ beːlo], Georg Anton Hugo von, Verfassungs und Wirtschaftshistoriker, * Königsberg (Pr) 19. 1. 1858, ✝ Badenweiler 20. 10. 1927; Professor in Münster, Marburg, Tübingen und seit 1905 in Freiburg im … Universal-Lexikon
below — (adv.) early 14c., biloogh, from BE (Cf. be ) by, about + logh, lou, lowe low (see LOW (Cf. low) (adj.)). Apparently a variant of earlier a lowe (influenced by other adverbs in be , Cf. BEFORE (Cf. before)), the parallel form to an high … Etymology dictionary
below — ► PREPOSITION & ADVERB 1) at a lower level than. 2) (in printed text) mentioned further down. ● below stairs Cf. ↑below stairs … English terms dictionary
below — [bi lō′] adv., adj. [see BE & LOW1] 1. in or to a lower place; beneath 2. in a lower place on the page or on a later page (of a book, etc.) 3. in or to hell 4. on earth 5 … English World dictionary

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