discount vs lower

discount

verb
  • To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount 

  • To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like. 

  • To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest 

  • To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). 

  • To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation. 

  • To leave out of account or regard as unimportant. 

noun
  • The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation. 

  • The rate of interest charged in discounting. 

  • A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money. 

  • A lack or shortcoming. 

  • A reduction in price. 

adj
  • Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices. 

lower

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

  • To decrease in value, amount, etc. 

  • To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program. 

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

  • To bring down; to humble 

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

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

  • To reduce the height of 

  • To depress as to direction 

  • to pull down 

  • To make less elevated 

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

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

  • Situated on lower ground, nearer a coast, or more southerly. 

  • older 

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