I. bə̇ˈlō, bē- adverb (or adjective)
Etymology: be- + low (adverb)
1.
a.
(1) : at a lower level
the pencil rolled off the desk and fell on the floor below
: further down (as along a river, valley, or slope)
several houses below on the right bank of the stream
(2) : directly under : down under
the elevator was let down to pick up the men on the floor below
— sometimes used interjectionally to express warning
in spite of a shout “ Below! ” an engineer was hit on the shoulder — John May
b.
(1) : on earth
if man is born in sin … improvements in conditions here below can be of only secondary importance — Times Literary Supplement
(2) : in Hades or hell
the fiends below
2.
a. : lower in rank : in a lower station
the kindergarten below
b. : in or to a court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction
the learned judge below did not distinguish — American Journal of International Law
3. : inside or into the superstructure of a boat or down from an upper deck or structure (as a bridge or pilothouse) to a lower deck
set his course, and went below to sleep — Saturday Review
4.
a. : below zero
20 below
b. : below-the-line
II. preposition
1.
a. : downward from
flower boxes below the windows
b. : further down from
a river barge moored a mile below town
: at a lower level than
lava beds lying below the volcanic cone
c. : at the bottom of : directly underneath
the caption below a picture
d. : farther south than
Richmond is below Washington
2. : beneath
he thought manual labor below him
3. : inferior to : lower down the scale than
fairly high in the scale of animal life and only a little below the vertebrates — R.E.Coker
4. : covered, concealed, or hidden by
the real reason below the mass of pretexts
below the sod
III. noun
( -s )
1. : matter located lower on the same page or on a following page
the below is iambic
2.
a. : a lower class (as of people)
churches have always drawn their recruits from below — A.W.Long
b. : a lower region (as of a building interior, land, or water)
IV. adjective
: located lower on the same page or on a following page
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