Low, a Rock Island official, visited the local railroad station then under construction, and inquired about its name.

Nanaimo is probably the northernmost location of a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csb ) in the world, and is slightly shielded from the Aleutian Low ’ s influence by the mountains of central Vancouver Island, so that summers are unusually dry for its latitude and location — though summer drying as a trend is found in the immediate lee of the coastal ranges as far north as Skagway, Alaska.

The wedding was at Oheka Castle, his family's estate on Long Island, and was kept secret from the public for two weeks, until the Broadway show Williams was appearing in, Sweet and Low, had had its final performances.

*" Black Jack David " / " Moon Hang Low " ( Island WIP 6145, November 1972 )

In 1774, John Alsop, along with James Duane, John Jay, Philip Livingston, and Isaac Low were named by several counties, extending from Long Island to Albany.

Gattie who asserted, based on unsourced legends, that the sands were once the fertile low-lying island of Lomea, which he equated with an island said to be known to the Romans as Infera Insula (" Low Island ").

Former names include " Barren Island ", " Coral Queen Island ", " Hero Island ", " Low Island " and " Starve Island ".

The Knott family is linked to the Darling Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage of Thomas Owen Hall ( b. Dale, Pembs 1840 ) ( Son of John Hall ( b. 1810 Dale, Pembs ) keeper of St. Ann ’ s Low Light ) to Grace Horsley Darling ( b. Bamburgh 1844 ) ( daughter of William Darling ( b. 1806 Bamburgh ) Keeper of Farne Island Lighthouse ) and niece of Grace Darling.

Image: Deer Island Point low tide. jpg | Low tide at Deer Island Point with the Old Sow in action.

* Rhode Island band The Low Anthem recorded the track " Golden Cattle " for their 2011 album Smart Flesh.

Smaller islands in the group include Anderson Island, Babel Island, Badger Island, Billy Goat Reefs, Big Green Island, Briggs Islet, Cat Island, Chalky Island, Cooties Reef, Doughboy Island, East Kangaroo Island, Fisher Island, Fisher Island Reef, Forsyth Island, Great Dog Island, Inner Sister Island, Outer Sister Island, Isabella Island, Little Anderson Island, Little Chalky Island, Little Dog Island, Little Green Island, Long Island, Low Islets, and another of the same name Low Islets, Middle Pasco Island, Mile Island, Moriarty Rocks, Mount Chappell Island, Neds Reef, Night Island, North Pasco Island, Passage Island ( Tasmania ), Pelican Island, Prime Seal Island, Puncheon Island, Puncheon Islets, Roydon Island, Rum Island, Samphire Island, Sentinel Island, South Pasco Island, Spences Reefs, Spike Island, Storehouse Island, Swan Island, Tin Kettle Island, Vansittart Island.

* Low molecular weight gases ( Hydrogen & helium ) may be difficult to remove from the analysis chamber, and may be adsorbed and emitted from the specimen, even though not present in the original specimen.

The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

Low income people generally spend a similar amount on food, while high income people may spend a very large amount or as little as low income people spend.

Low percentage gels are very weak and may break when you try to lift them.

Low sea levels may have also exacerbated temperature extremes.

: ' oxen's head ', with osse being a synonym for steer and bull in Middle Low German ), with an attached hide, and a crown above, may have originated from this period.

A player's " string " of polo ponies may number 2 or 3 in Low Goal matches ( with ponies being rested for at least a chukker before reuse ), 4 or more for Medium Goal matches ( at least one per chukker ), and even more for the highest levels of competition.

; Low throughput: Due to varying load from other users sharing the same network resources, the bit rate ( the maximum throughput ) that can be provided to a certain data stream may be too low for realtime multimedia services if all data streams get the same scheduling priority.

Governor Frederick Low favored the establishment of a state university based upon the University of Michigan plan, and thus in one sense may be regarded as the founder of the University of California.

Low or moderate inflation may be attributed to fluctuations in real demand for goods and services, or changes in available supplies such as during scarcities, as well as to growth in the money supply.

This may have merged later with the belief that butterflies ate milk and butter ( compare Middle High German molkendiep-literally “ milk-thief ”; Modern German Molkendieb and Low German Botterlicker-literally “ butter-licker ”), or that they excreted a butter-like substance ( compare Middle Dutch boterschijte-literally “ butter-shitter ”, also Middle Dutch botervliege, Dutch botervlieg, German butterfliege ).

Low temperatures may have been exaggerated during the early stages of continental rifting.

Low investment has been a long term problem in Fiji and property rights are sometimes thought to be part of this problem because, by law, five sixths of the land is owned communally by indigenous Fijians and may only be leased, not purchased outright.

Low levels of myo-inositol may be involved in diabetic neuropathy.

Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and lead to further reduced fertility.

Low densities may be associated with specialized mate location adaptations such as specialized pollinators, as found in the orchid family ( Orchidaceae ).

Low patient and provider expectations regarding psychological treatment may explain particularly low placebo responses to psychiatric treatments.

This sense may have derived from the 16th-century tip meaning " to strike or hit smartly but lightly " ( which may have derived from the Low German tippen, " to tap "), but this derivation is " very uncertain ".< ref name =" oed2 ">" tip, v .< sup > 4 </ sup >" Oxford English Dictionary.

Low levels of constituents such as PCBs, dioxin, and brominated flame retardants, may remain in treated sludge.

* LFO-A Low Frequency Oscillator may or may not be voltage-controlled.

Low blood pressure or syncope may ensue.

# Rivers, canals and low land reservoirs: Low land surface waters will have a significant bacterial load and may also contain algae, suspended solids and a variety of dissolved constituents.

In Roman times in its feminine form, for example, it was used to refer to Roman Valognes in Normandy, Roman Maryport in Cumbria, Roman Alcester in Warwickshire, Roman Watercrook in Natland, Cumbria, Roman Low Learchild on the Devil's Causeway in Northumberland, Ardoch in Perthshire and the River Aln in Northumberland.

In the German language, the term " Weißer Sonntag " ( literally: " White Sunday ") does not refer to Whitsunday but rather to the first Sunday after Easter, known in English as either " Octave Day of Easter " or " Low Sunday ".

The track " Low Life " ( with its accusatory lyrics of " Egomaniac traitor ", " You fell in love with your ego " and " Bourgeoisie anarchist ") has also been regarded as an attack on McLaren, although Lydon has stated that the lyrics refer to Sid Vicious.

General term used to refer to a series of late Neolithic communities of the 3rd millennium BC living in Scandinavia, northern Germany, and the Low Countries that share the practice of single burial under barrows, the deceased usually being accompanied by a battle-axe, amber beads, and pottery vessels.

Low German Neghen-doer and Middle German Nünmörder were also used ; this has today evolved into Neuntöter and specifically means the Red-backed Shrike, but could in earlier times refer to any native Lanius.

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

* Low Ping Bastard, a term used to refer to players in multiplayer online games with low latency, and thus low lag

New Mills can refer to the built-up area that includes Newtown and Low Leighton, or the civil parish that includes the villages and hamlets of Whitle, Thornsett, Hague Bar, Rowarth, Brookbottom, Gowhole, and most of Birch Vale.

In other cases the reverse is true ; for instance, the name of Wetherlam, in the Coniston Fells, though understood to refer to the mountain as a whole, strictly speaking refers to the summit ; the slopes have names such as Tilberthwaite High Fell, Low Fell and Above Beck Fells.

Native speakers of Low German in the Netherlands refer to their language as plat or dialect, or they call it by the name of their village or town.

The term Octave of Easter may refer either to the eight day period ( Octave ) from Easter Sunday until the Sunday following Easter, inclusive ; or it may refer only to that Sunday after Easter, the Octave Day of Easter ( sometimes known as Low Sunday ).

Low Latin is a vague and often pejorative term that might refer to any post-classical Latin from Late Latin through Renaissance Latin depending on the author.

Low or LOW may refer to:

High card by suit and Low card by suit refer to assigning relative values to playing cards of equal rank based on their suit.

Philologists often refer to Old Dutch as Old West Low Franconian.

They essentially consider the names " Old Frankish " ( when used to refer to the language spoken by the Salian Franks ), " Old West Low Franconian " and " Old Dutch " to refer to the same language ( or set of dialects ).

Low Moor may refer to:

However, the mistranslation of Olland as Altes Land has now come full circle, since most Low Saxon speakers today refer to the region as dat Ole Land ( literally the old land ).