Lower vs. Upper — What's the Difference?

To look angry, sullen, or threatening.

Higher in place, position, or rank

To appear dark or stormy, as the sky.

Situated on higher ground

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

Lying farther inland

To reduce in value, degree, or quality.

Northern

To weaken; undermine

Upper Geology & Archaeology Of, relating to, or being a later division of the period named.

To reduce in standing or respect.

Denoting the smaller and usually less broadly representative house of a bicameral legislature.

To move down

The part of a shoe or boot above the sole.

To become less; diminish

(Informal) An upper berth.

A threatening, sullen, or angry look.

Uppers(Informal) The upper teeth or a set of upper dentures.

A dark or stormy appearance

A drug, especially an amphetamine, used as a stimulant.

Having little relative height; not high or tall

An exhilarating or euphoric experience.

Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces

At a higher level, rank or position.

Near to the ground or the horizon

Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.

Situated or placed below normal height

Younger, more recent

Situated below the surrounding surfaces

(education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.

Of less than usual or average depth; shallow

A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.

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

The upper portion of something

Close or closer to a reference point

(shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.

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

(footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.

Below average in degree, intensity, or amount

Someone with higher social standing

Below an average or a standard

A senior student.

Ranked near the beginning of an ascending series or scale

That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.

Relating to or being latitudes nearest to the equator.

A tooth in the upper jaw.

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

A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.

Not loud; soft

An upper berth or bunk.

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

(Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.

Below others in status or rank; lowly

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.

Violating standards of morality or decency; base

The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

Below another in rank, position, or authority.

The higher of two berths

Physically situated below a similar or comparable thing

Piece of leather that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole

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

A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression

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

Higher in place or position;

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

The topmost one of two

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

Superior in rank or accomplishment;

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;