Second-string and Lower

adjective

• Being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team.
  • usage: "a second-string pitcher"

noun

• The lower of two berths.
  • synonyms: lower berth

verb

• Move something or somebody to a lower position.
  • usage: "take down the vase from the shelf"
  • synonyms: take down, let down, get down, bring down
• Set lower.
  • usage: "lower a rating"; "lower expectations"
  • synonyms: lour
• Make lower or quieter.
  • usage: "turn down the volume of a radio"
  • synonyms: turn down, lour
• Cause to drop or sink.
  • usage: "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
  • synonyms: depress
• Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval.
  • synonyms: frown, glower, lour

adjective

• Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
  • usage: "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"
  • synonyms: low
• Literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.
  • usage: "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow"
  • synonyms: low
• Very low in volume.
  • usage: "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf"
  • synonyms: low, low-toned
• Unrefined in character.
  • usage: "low comedy"
  • synonyms: low
• Used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency.
  • synonyms: low, low-pitched
• Of the most contemptible kind.
  • usage: "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
  • synonyms: abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
• Low or inferior in station or quality.
  • usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
  • synonyms: humble, low, lowly, modest, small
• No longer sufficient.
  • usage: "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"
  • synonyms: depleted, low
• Subdued or brought low in condition or status.
  • usage: "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
  • synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
• Filled with melancholy and despondency .
  • usage: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
  • synonyms: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

adverb

• In a low position; near the ground.
  • usage: "the branches hung low"
  • synonyms: low

• (a.) 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.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc.; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
• (a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
• (a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
• (a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
• (a.) 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.
• (v.i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
• (a.) Compar. of Low, a.
• (v.i.) To frown; to look sullen.
• (n.) A frowning; sullenness.
• (n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.