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BELOW

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(in writing) at a later place

Example:

vide infra

Synonyms:

below; infra

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

above ((in writing) at an earlier place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In or to a place that is lower

Synonyms:

at a lower place; below; beneath; to a lower place

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

above (in or to a place that is higher)

Sense 3

Meaning:

On a floor below

Example:

the tenants live downstairs

Synonyms:

below; down the stairs; downstairs; on a lower floor

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Adverbs

Sense 4

Meaning:

Further down

Example:

see under for further discussion

Synonyms:

below; under

Classified under:

Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

Far below the jagged points of the boulders bristled up, dark and menacing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hungry zooplankton hundreds of meters below the surface often consume carbon-rich particles sinking toward the ocean floor, interrupting the transport process.

(Research provides new view of the critical role of plankton in marine carbon storage, National Science Foundation)

Meltwater ponds fracturing the ice below them may not cause protracted chain reactions that unexpectedly collapse floating ice shelves.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

In the colder periods, nitrogen dominated the atmosphere, raining down and cycling through the icy crust to collect in pools just below the surface.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)

This predominant method of rice farming in tropical Asia raises the water table over time to just below the ground surface.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

An observer sitting on Thalassa would see Naiad in an orbit that varies wildly in a zigzag pattern, passing by twice from above and then twice from below.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

Since the icy shell is geologically young and features abundant evidence of past geologic activity, it was suspected that whatever salts exist on the surface may derive from the ocean below.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

The asteroid will pass below Earth and the geosynchronous ring of communications and weather satellites orbiting about 36,000 kilometers above our planet's surface.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

The portion of the descending aorta that lies within the abdomen, beginning below the diaphragm and ending at its division into the right and left common iliac arteries.

(Abdominal Aorta, NCI Thesaurus)

Warmer, saltier water from the depths is ferried to the surface, where air chills it and makes it denser than the water below.

(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)