| 单词 | lower-roofed |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslower-roofed a. Forming comparative adjectives corresponding to compounds of low adj., as lower-cost, lower-risk, lower-roofed, etc. ΚΠ 1627 H. Sydenham Athenian Babler 28 To apprehensions lower-roofed wayes more troden to aduise, and comfort. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία Index sig.Ppv Lower-Region'd Souls. 1759 J. Berkenhout tr. C. G. Tessin Lett. to Young Prince I. 26 I will not mention virtue and a good conscience: we lower-ranked mortals should be ill-off, if these were the special rights of majesty. 1788 Calcutta Chron. 31 Jan. To be sold..A Brick-built Lower-roomed House. 1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xiii. 242 Smaller, clumsier, lower-brained, and weaker-jawed than their elders. 1898 Cosmopolitan June 188/1 The market is glutted with goods of our kind, and nothing is going to be gained by cut-downs and forcing lower-cost goods into it. 1922 Pop. Mech. Sept. 412/1 It seemed to roll on and on,..sometimes increasing in its growl, then diminishing as it entered one of the lower-roofed cavities. 1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective ix. 297 The hotter, lower-lying southern regions of the country. 1995 M. Chandler Life & Work John Mason Neale ii. 42 Lower-sided pews..enabled worshippers to look into their neighbours' pews. 1999 What Investm. Mar. 11 Ethically minded companies are lower-risk as they can be less susceptible to strikes. < as lemmas |
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