Lowers
['ləuə]
Examples
- But it's the heart that lowers me, it is the heart! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The gun is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which lowers it out of sight behind the breastworks after firing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- While the crane proper is moving through the crane-way, this car travels across the crane, and at the same time raises or lowers whatever may be suspended from it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As is well known common salt mixed with pounded ice or snow lowers the temperature to a considerable degree, so there are other mixtures which will produce a still greater degree of cold. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They are automatically dropped onto another elevator which lowers them to the point near where they are used in the final assembly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These conditions are provided for by conducting the evaporation in a vacuum, which lowers the evaporating temperature and avoids contact with the air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The expansion lowers its temperature considerably. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It lowers the price of vegetable food; because, by increasing the fertility of the land, it increases its abundance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With that, and 'Good night,' the Secretary lowers the window, and disappears. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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