What's the difference between comedown and lower?

Comedown


Definition:

  • (n.) A downfall; an humiliation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
  • (2) We’ll probably never know what percentage of Labour MPs and experts are firefighting these events on a Glasto comedown.
  • (3) For the AU, it was a humiliating comedown after the inauguration of its new headquarters, which was accompanied by high rhetoric and performances by a brass band, dance troupes and singers.
  • (4) The comedown can be shocking in terms of feeling down or embarrassed by my behaviour, even if I feel that I wasn’t in the wrong.” Keane also accepts that his reputation means strangers are naturally wary in his company but argues that he is not the person many think.
  • (5) Theirs was a collective comedown from the adrenaline rush, exhaustion from an energy-sapping occasion inevitably creeping in as players attempted to comprehend what had just been achieved.
  • (6) For the person who led it from being just a concept that he struggled to interest carriers in, to a world-straddling behemoth, that's got to be a bit of a comedown.
  • (7) It was a big comedown, in personal and creative terms.
  • (8) But then the vision of a shrinking Fifa Fan Fest, which from the top of a building resembled an ant colony being dismantled by its own inhabitants, brought it all back home: the 2014 World Cup was over and the biggest Brazilian comedown was officially on – no matter that Rio de Janeiro’s most famous promenade, its bars, restaurants and car rental agencies still had a cacophony of foreign accents as a soundtrack.
  • (9) Our politicians have made a habit out of rejecting science, and we’re left with the comedown.
  • (10) He can joke about being approached by drug dealers in the street who mistake his quivering for a junkie's comedown.
  • (11) Whereas in reality, after I've savoured my coffee, there is only comedown.
  • (12) "Users told us there were terrible comedowns with mephedrone, but it was rather moreish," Measham said.
  • (13) Life after the political whirl of the White House was always going to be a comedown, even if you drink lots of coffee, and Engskov sounds like an ex-con when he says: "When I first got out of the White House I struggled … it was a difficult transition."
  • (14) That might be considered a comedown for a player who competed for the Belgian title while at Standard and began this season playing in the Europa League but he says the thrill of escaping relegation is similar to the buzz of challenging for higher honours.
  • (15) Insolvency amounts to a humiliating comedown for a studio with a back catalogue of 4,000 titles holding 205 Oscars between them.
  • (16) Rebecca Nicholson, writer John Grant provides a moment of magic For one all-too-brief hour, as the sun set over Glastonbury and John Grant took to the Park Stage on Saturday night, the unwashed festival masses were transported away from a world of mud, bruises and two day comedowns.
  • (17) JK Rowling's ranking – at number 15, with earnings of £13m – is a steep comedown since the heyday of Harry Potter in 2008, when she topped the highest-earners list with sales of £170m, more than the combined annual earnings of the nine other authors on the list that year.
  • (18) All Scottish newspapers suffered sales falls last month in the annual comedown in circulation following the boost given by the Edinburgh festival in August, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published today.
  • (19) Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns.
  • (20) The comedown from his moment of glory was swift and harsh.

Lower


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
  • (2) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (3) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (5) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
  • (6) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
  • (7) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
  • (8) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (9) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
  • (10) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (12) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
  • (13) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
  • (14) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
  • (15) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
  • (16) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
  • (17) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
  • (18) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
  • (19) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
  • (20) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.

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