Lower vs. Decrease — What's the Difference?

To look angry, sullen, or threatening.

To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.

To appear dark or stormy, as the sky.

The act or process of decreasing.

To let, bring, or move down to a lower level.

The amount by which something decreases.

To reduce in value, degree, or quality.

(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.

To weaken; undermine

(transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.

To reduce in standing or respect.

An amount by which a quantity is decreased.

To move down

(knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).

To become less; diminish

To grow less, - opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.

A threatening, sullen, or angry look.

To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.

A dark or stormy appearance

A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.

Having little relative height; not high or tall

The wane of the moon.

Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces

A change downward;

Near to the ground or the horizon

A process of becoming smaller or shorter

Situated or placed below normal height

The amount by which something decreases

Situated below the surrounding surfaces

The act of decreasing or reducing something

Of less than usual or average depth; shallow

Decrease in size, extent, or range;

Cut to show the wearer's neck and chest; décolleté

Make smaller;

Close or closer to a reference point

(Linguistics) Produced with part or all of the tongue depressed, as a, pronounced (ä), in father. Used of vowels.

Below average in degree, intensity, or amount

Below an average or a standard

Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale

Relating to or being latitudes nearest to the equator.

Relatively small. Used of a cost, price, or other value

Not loud; soft

Having a pitch corresponding to a relatively small number of sound-wave cycles per second.

Below others in status or rank; lowly

Violating standards of morality or decency; base

Below another in rank, position, or authority.

Physically situated below a similar or comparable thing

Lower Geology & Archaeology Relating to or being an earlier or older division of the period named.

(Biology) Less complex in organization or having traits similar to those of organisms that evolved earlier in the history of life on Earth.

Denoting the larger and usually more representative house of a bicameral legislature.

Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object

Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly.

Older

(transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

(transitive) to pull down

(transitive) To reduce the height of

(transitive) To depress as to direction

(transitive) To make less elevated

(transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

(transitive) To bring down; to humble

(reflexive) (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

(transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.

(intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

(intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.

To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.

Alternative spelling of lour

To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.

To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.

To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.

To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.

To reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.

To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

To frown; to look sullen.

Cloudiness; gloominess.

A frowning; sullenness.

The lower of two berths

Move something or somebody to a lower position;

Set lower;

Cause to drop or sink;

Make lower or quieter;

Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

(usually preceded by `no') lower in esteem;

Inferior in rank or status;

The bottom one of two;

Of the underworld;