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1. | [ adverb ] spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | |
Synonyms: | downward downwardly downwards | |
Examples: | "don't fall down" "rode the lift up and skied down" "prices plunged downward" |
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Related terms: | up up up up | |
2. | [ adverb ] away from a more central or a more northerly place | |
Examples: | "was sent down to work at the regional office" "worked down on the farm" "came down for the wedding" "flew down to Florida" |
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Related terms: | up | |
3. | [ adjective ] being or moving lower in position or less in some value | |
Examples: | "lay face down" "the moon is down" "our team is down by a run" "down by a pawn" "the stock market is down today" |
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Related terms: | up downcast fallen downward behind downbound thrown set downfield low descending | |
4. | [ verb ] drink down entirely | |
Synonyms: | bolt_down belt_down pour_down drink_down kill pop toss_off | |
Examples: | "He downed three martinis before dinner" "She killed a bottle of brandy that night" "They popped a few beer after work" |
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Related terms: | drink | |
5. | [ adverb ] paid in cash at time of purchase | |
Examples: | "put ten dollars down on the necklace" |
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6. | [ adjective ] understood perfectly | |
Synonyms: | mastered down_pat | |
Examples: | "had his algebra problems down" |
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Related terms: | perfect | |
7. | [ adjective ] becoming progressively lower | |
Synonyms: | declining | |
Examples: | "steadily declining incomes" "the down trend in the real estate market" |
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Related terms: | falling | |
8. | [ verb ] (sport) bring down or defeat, in sports | |
Related terms: | overcome sport | |
9. | [ noun ] (American football) a complete play to advance the football | |
Examples: | "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards" |
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Related terms: | turn American_football | |
10. | [ noun ] (zoology) soft fine feathers | |
Synonyms: | down_feather | |
Related terms: | feather duck_down swan's_down goose_down plumule eiderdown | |
11. | [ verb ] (food) eat immoderately | |
Synonyms: | consume go_through devour | |
Examples: | "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
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Related terms: | eat devourer | |
12. | [ pronoun ] preposition, at or approaching the bottom | |
13. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 20938 | |
14. | [ adjective ] lower than previously | |
Synonyms: | depressed | |
Examples: | "the market is depressed" "prices are down" |
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Related terms: | low | |
15. | [ adjective ] out | |
Examples: | "two down in the last of the ninth" |
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Related terms: | out | |
16. | [ adjective ] extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | |
Synonyms: | downward | |
Examples: | "the down staircase" "the downward course of the stream" |
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Related terms: | descending | |
17. | [ verb ] shoot at and force to come down | |
Synonyms: | shoot_down land | |
Examples: | "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" |
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Related terms: | land | |
18. | [ verb ] cause to come or go down | |
Synonyms: | knock_down cut_down push_down pull_down | |
Examples: | "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect" "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" |
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Related terms: | strike submarine sedative | |
19. | [ adjective ] low in spirits | |
Synonyms: | blue downcast dispirited downhearted low low-spirited depressed | |
Examples: | "lonely and blue in a strange city" "depressed by the loss of his job" "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face" "downcast after his defeat" "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
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Related terms: | dejected | |
20. | [ adjective ] the fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase | |
Examples: | "the down payment" "a payment of $200 down" |
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Related terms: | fractional | |
21. | [ verb ] improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | |
Synonyms: | polish refine fine-tune | |
Examples: | "refine one's style of writing" |
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Related terms: | better educate | |
22. | [ adverb ] in an inactive or inoperative state | |
Examples: | "the factory went down during the strike" "the computer went down again" |
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23. | [ adverb ] to a lower intensity | |
Examples: | "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" |
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Related terms: | up | |
24. | [ adjective ] cut down | |
Synonyms: | cut_down cut | |
Examples: | "the tree is down" |
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Related terms: | felled | |
25. | [ noun ] fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | |
Synonyms: | pile | |
Related terms: | hair lanugo | |
26. | [ adverb ] from an earlier time | |
Examples: | "the story was passed down from father to son" |
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27. | [ noun ] (medicine,work) English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) | |
Synonyms: | john_l._h._down | |
Related terms: | doctor | |
28. | [ verb ] improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | |
Synonyms: | refine burnish fine-tune polish gloss | |
Examples: | "refine one's style of writing" |
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Related terms: | better decorate educate over-refine gloss_over whitewash polish rub | |
29. | [ adjective ] low in spirits | |
Synonyms: | blue down_in_the_mouth low-spirited downcast downhearted low dispirited depressed | |
Examples: | "lonely and blue in a strange city" "depressed by the loss of his job" "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face" "downcast after his defeat" "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
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Related terms: | dejected | |
30. | [ adjective ] shut | |
Examples: | "the shades were down" |
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Related terms: | lowered | |
31. | [ adjective ] (used of computers) temporarily not operating | |
Examples: | "can't do a thing because the computers are down" |
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Related terms: | malfunctioning | |
32. | [ adjective ] not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | |
Examples: | "we can't work because the computer is down" |
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Related terms: | inoperative | |
33. | [ noun ] (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | |
Related terms: | highland plural | |
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