low-rise

[ loh-rahyz ]

/ ˈloʊˌraɪz /

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adjective

having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.

(of pants) having a waistline placed at or just below the hips: low-rise jeans.

noun

a low-rise building.

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Origin of low-rise

First recorded in 1955–60; on the model of high-rise

Words nearby low-rise

low-rent, low-res, low-resolution, lowrider, lowriding, low-rise, low road, Lowry, lowse, lowside window, low-spirited

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How to use low-rise in a sentence

The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.
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Being something of a political cipher may have helped Revels rise to prominence.
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Fleshy breasts taunted him from low bikini tops, and fleshy thighs sloped from bikini bottoms.
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“He has to really stay on the down low, he has to make sure that he blends in,” Ney told the Beast.
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Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.
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In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
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It is low in chronic interstitial nephritis, diabetes insipidus, and many functional nervous disorders.
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The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
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In pneumonia chlorids are constantly very low, and in some cases are absent entirely.
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Suddenly she stopped laughing, and said in a low voice, "You don't happen to have a beefsteak about you, do you?"
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British Dictionary definitions for low-rise

low-rise

adjective

of or relating to a building having only a few storeysCompare high-rise

noun

such a building

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