Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to attract attention or to show surprise.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Look! see! behold! observe!—used to invoke or direct the particular attention of a person to some object or subject of interest.
- n. A North American Indian.
Wiktionary
- interj. archaic Look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
- colloquial hello ('lo; see hallo)
- adj. Informal spelling of low.
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. Look; see; behold; observe.
Etymologies
- Variant of low. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English lā. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Un incordio, quien lo ha enviado, ¿lo has enviado para mí?”
“P&G's researchers have found that while generally frugal spenders, Hispanics are also willing to splurge on the types of premium household goods that P&G makes, subscribing to the phrase "lo barato sale caro," meaning that cheap things may ultimately prove costly.”
“If that person is liked, the term lo fan is applied.”
“Very french this one, funny, I like the term lo-fi surrealism.”
“If, therefore, we find in Chinese lo-che for the Sanskrit ra_g_as, dust, we may ascribe the change of r into l to the inability of the Chinese to pronounce or to write an r.”
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
“The word lo'gos itself has at times the metonymical sense here given to it, and therefore en anoi'xei tou sto'mato's is most naturally taken without emphasis as equivalent to, when I open my mouth, i.e. when called upon to speak.”
“The first characters that got from a computer at UCLA to Stanford Research Institute were "lo" - the "g" did not make it through before the computer crashed.”
“The first word communicated on the net was "lo" - Kline was attempting to type the word "login" when the system crashed.”
“The Sci-Fi Channel is smartly offering it up to watch online (see the big red banner at the top of this page); unfortunately, it’s only in lo-rez streaming format.”
“I subscribe to what Alejo Carpentier called 'lo maravilloso real', that the history and geography of the Caribbean and Latin America is so baroque and extreme that it seems either fictional or magical to outsiders.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lo’.
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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Famous transmitted messages
england expects t..., mr watson, come h..., what hath god wro..., lo, merry christmas, one two three fou..., are you ready, sos cqd sos cqd, the horse does no..., s, saw ship sank same, - . -. - -.- cq and 17 more...
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•Things That Escape When You Remove t...
Its proximate cause is among the comments on aloot, but see also the open list Things That Get Way More Fun When You Add a "G" to Them.
aloot, gun ho, poo stick, bunhole, underdo, leapfro, lacier, bader, kinship, sonwriter, litter, loophobia and 74 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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fabula's Words
fabulas, pasadizo, laberinto, amazónica, libritos, manzana, ilustración, ilustraciones, trazos, tiralíneas, eufenismo, cinemateca and 217 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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Artists
cage, atmosphere, grieves, passionate, joker, incubus, modest, mouse, bright, eyes, sadistic, necro and 41 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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A Nativity Scene, Wordie Style
deiparous, messiah, myrrh, frankincense, gold, manger, magi, donkey, ox, sheep, shepherds, star of bethlehem and 10 more...
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Really Cool Two-Letter Words
Tight but full of might.
id, ox, or, am, ho, pi, om, ur, xi, ad, ai, mu and 14 more...
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en chantant la gamme
the gamut of solfege and the Indian sargam
do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, sa, ga, ma, pa, dha and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lo.
Prolagus The first message ever to be sent over the ARPANET (sent over the first host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. It was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The message itself was simply the word "login." The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was "lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later.
(Source: Wikipedia) Jun 5, 2009
fbharjo hot Swedish punch made of red wine, brandy, and sherry flavored with almonds, raisins, and orange peel. glogg Dec 15, 2008
oroboros Awake! for Heaven in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight;
And lo!, the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
First stanza of Edward FitzGerald's first translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Interesting side note: every word of the stanza is listed on Wordie save 'puts' as of this writing. Dec 16, 2006