The difference between Lower and Nether

When used as verbs, lower means to let descend by its own weight, as something suspended, whereas nether means to bring or thrust down.

Nether is also noun with the meaning: oppression.

Nether is also adverb with the meaning: down.

Nether is also adjective with the meaning: lower.

check bellow for the other definitions of Lower and Nether

  1. Lower as an adjective:

  2. Lower as an adjective:

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

  3. Lower as an adjective (geology, of strata or geological time periods):

    older

  1. Lower as an adverb:

  1. Lower as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "lower a bucket into a well"

    "to lower a sail of a boat"

  2. Lower as a verb (transitive):

    to pull down

    Examples:

    "to lower a flag"

  3. Lower as a verb (transitive):

    To reduce the height of

    Examples:

    "lower a fence or wall"

    "lower a chimney or turret"

  4. Lower as a verb (transitive):

    To depress as to direction

    Examples:

    "lower the aim of a gun"

  5. Lower as a verb (transitive):

    To make less elevated

    Examples:

    "to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes"

  6. Lower as a verb (transitive):

    To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

    Examples:

    "lower the temperature"

    "lower one's vitality"

    "lower distilled liquors"

  7. Lower as a verb (transitive):

    To bring down; to humble

    Examples:

    "lower one's pride"

  8. Lower as a verb (reflexive):

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

    Examples:

    "I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes."

  9. Lower as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "lower the price of goods"

    "lower the interest rate"

  10. Lower as a verb (intransitive):

    To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

    Examples:

    "The river lowered as rapidly as it rose."

  11. Lower as a verb (intransitive):

    To decrease in value, amount, etc.

  1. Lower as a verb:

  1. Nether as an adjective:

    Lower; under.

    Examples:

    "The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered."

  2. Nether as an adjective:

    Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth's surface.

    Examples:

    "The nether regions."

  1. Nether as an adverb:

    Down; downward.

  2. Nether as an adverb:

    Low; low down.

  1. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland):

    To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

  2. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland):

    To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.

  3. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.

  4. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.

  5. Nether as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

  1. Nether as a noun (UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):

    Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

  2. Nether as a noun (mining):

    A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

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