down - 27 definitions |
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| 1. | down -- soft fine feathers |
| synonyms: down feather |
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| 2. | down -- (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards" |
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| 3. | Down -- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) |
| synonyms: Down, John L. H. Down |
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| 4. | down -- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil |
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| 5. | down -- 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 |
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| - verb |
| 6. | toss off -- drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work" |
| synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, drink down, kill |
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| 7. | devour -- eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
| synonyms: devour, consume, go through |
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| 8. | down -- bring down or defeat (an opponent) |
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| 9. | down -- shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" |
| synonyms: shoot down, land |
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| 10. | down -- cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" |
| synonyms: knock down, cut down, push down, pull down |
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| 11. | polish -- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" |
| synonyms: polish, refine, fine-tune |
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| 12. | down, downs -- to cause to fall |
| synonyms: downs, downed, downing |
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| - adjective |
| 13. | down -- being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" |
| antonyms: up -- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up" |
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| 14. | down -- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" |
| synonyms: downward |
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| 15. | down -- becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market" |
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| 16. | down -- being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth" |
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| 17. | down -- understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down" |
| synonyms: down pat, mastered |
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| 18. | depressed -- lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" |
| synonyms: depressed |
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| 19. | down -- shut; "the shades were down" |
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| 20. | down -- not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down" |
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| 21. | gloomy -- filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "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" |
| synonyms: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited |
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| - adverb |
| 22. | down -- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" |
| synonyms: downwards, downward, downwardly |
| antonyms: up -- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" , up -- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" , up -- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" , up -- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" |
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| 23. | down -- away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida" |
| antonyms: up -- to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation" |
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| 24. | down -- paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace" |
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| 25. | down -- from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son" |
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| 26. | down -- to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" |
| antonyms: up -- to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume" |
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| 27. | down -- in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again" |
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