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below Preposition

— At a lower position

below

— adverb in or to a place that is lower — adverb at a later place see below — adverb (= infra) (in writing) see below vide infra — adverb (= downstairs) on a floor below the tenants live downstairs — adverb (= under) further down see under for further discussion

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under underneath beneath down less downstairs bottom downwards lower low downward lower down hereinafter less than at the bottom inside from below following end downhill behind to a lower place tip south posterior on a lower floor lower side infra in the middle hinder down the stairs at a lower place as follows underlying undergird under-neath under one’s eyes towards to the floor to the bottom thereunder thereinafter subsequently southward short rough draft on a slope not loud nether lowermost

Topics below topics

What do people use below to talk about?

States Quantity More

Less

What words indicate that something is less than a particular number or amount?

less than under below lower within minus
What words indicate that there is much less of something?

much less far less far fewer way below

States Location Here, there On

Under, below

What words indicate that something is in a lower position or on a lower level?

below beneath sunken lower

Universe, creation World Land

Examples below examples

How do I use below in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Your marks were well below average this term.

Your work is below average.

There is a hut below the bridge.

The thermometer went down below zero.

Thermometers often go below zero.

Simply follow the instructions below, and in no time you will be printing full color documents just as easily and quickly as black and white.

See below.

It's below her to say such a thing.

Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.

The man watched the sun set below the horizon.

The falls are some distance below the bridge.

The thermometer reads three degrees below zero.

The reason why we cannot support his view will be given below.

It is ten degrees below zero now.

It was ten degrees below zero this morning.

The temperature has fallen below zero this morning.

It was below zero this morning, but I cycled to school.

The temperature fell below zero last night.

Movie subtitles

I didn't think there would be anyone below.

Down below were stowed a host of exotic animals.

An oil field is sleeping below that ground!

The workers' city, far below the surface of the earth.

He came and stood below my window in the moonlight.

Are any of our men still below?

And even the road below is underwater and, for that matter, this place itself may be underwater pretty soon or even buried.

What have these South Americans got below the equator that we haven't?

She's waiting below.

Hey, you men on that winch down below on the deck and help with these hatches.

Well, you better stay below.

I'll look below.

She's not below.

Hey, below, Mr. Denham.

I'm sorry! I didn't think there would be anyone below.

In this survey we not only observed along the Milky Way equator, but also 10 degrees above and 10 degrees below. We observed several hundreds of positions.

We measured the radio emission as a function of velocity and determined from those the positions of hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy. Not only in the equatorial plane, but also above and below.

Once the station is replenished, it will change course and begin dropping atmospheric reentry capsules loaded with micro-drones toward the Earth below.

The virus being carried by the micro-drones will be released on the humans below. It will proliferate even as it forces its host to evolve.

Here, I'll meet you below deck.

Yonder stands the great white mountain. And down below lies the valley I've told you about.

How about those barrels down below?

I've been visiting my brother. He has the next plantation below here, and it's a lovely place.

Camp down below the south creek for the next 3 or 4 weeks. Remember?

Mate is talking nonsense, claims an unknown passenger is below deck.

Arrest that man, down below in the street.

I'll go to headquarters and get permission to go below.

But not by yelling foul the first time you're hit below the eyes.

Look out below!

Oh, well, she won't be so almighty calm when it's 4o below zero and she has to get up in the middle of the night.

I dropped up from the room below, where I've been trying to get some sleep.

There's a young lady in the room below us.

Then he was going to climb back up here, unscrew the ladder. throw that out the window on a dump heap down below.

Did you and Phil talk about that, too, down below?

I've put your luggage below, sir. Sir Humphrey Pengallan.

What's below?

Now get below and get them crates ready.

News and current affairs

Kagame then suggested giving every country an annual per capita quota for CO2 emissions, and allowing developing countries that are below the quota to trade their excess quota with countries that are above theirs.

International support so far has been generous, but it is still well below per capita equivalents for other post-conflict situations - and the need is much greater.

Climate economists repeatedly have pointed out that such energy innovation is the most effective climate solution, because it is the surest way to drive the price of future green energy sources below that of fossil fuels.

Farmers were digging a pit in the riverbed, down to the water table approximately two meters below ground level.

That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance-sheet deleveraging - reflecting excessive private-sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector - implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below-trend for many years to come.

Just this year, a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of nuclear weapons below five kilotons--the bomb at Hiroshima was 15 kilotons--was eliminated.

Although output is now higher than it was in the fourth quarter of 2007, it remains far below what could be produced if labor and capacity were fully utilized.

In principle, all of Russia's political elites appear to have - or pretend to have - resigned themselves to a political landscape with Putin alone on the mountaintop and everyone else consigned to the valley below.

But many poor countries can grow more food themselves, because their farmers are producing far below what is technologically possible.

In order to become cheaper, a country's inflation rate must stay below that of its competitors, but that can be accomplished only through an economic slump.

Germany, Japan, and the US, among others, remain far below this commitment.

If it is generally thought that oil prices will be higher in the future, owners of oil reserves will tend to postpone costly investments in exploration and expansion of production capacity, and they may pump oil at below capacity.

That way, formal haircuts on the face value of debt can be avoided via new bonds that include only a maturity extension and an interest-rate cap that is set below today's unsustainable market rates.

The average high-debt episodes since 1800 last 23 years and are associated with a growth rate more than one percentage point below the rate typical for periods of lower debt levels.

The data show, intriguingly, that those who show levels of trust well below the average for the country they live in are likely to have lower incomes.

But, while emissions in the rich nations were far above the permissible limit, Sri Lankan emissions were, at 660 kilograms, well below it.

This may lead to suppression of pressure from below for economic reform and opening.

At the same time, while consumer confidence is on the mend, it remains well below pre-crisis readings.

Most emerging economies may be returning to growth, but they are performing well below their potential.

Moreover, for a number of reasons, growth in the advanced economies is likely to remain anemic and well below trend for at least a couple of years.

Nevertheless, strategic anxiety lurks below the surface, particularly in India.

Benchmark policy rates are currently below headline inflation in India, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia.

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