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Down

adverb
1.
Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.  Synonyms: downward, downwardly, downwards.  "Rode the lift up and skied down" , "Prices plunged downward"
2.
Away from a more central or a more northerly place.  "Worked down on the farm" , "Came down for the wedding" , "Flew down to Florida"
3.
Paid in cash at time of purchase.
4.
From an earlier time.
5.
To a lower intensity.
6.
In an inactive or inoperative state.  "The computer went down again"
noun
1.
Soft fine feathers.  Synonym: down feather.
2.
(American football) a complete play to advance the football.
3.
English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896).  Synonym: John L. H. Down.
4.
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil.
5.
Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs).  Synonym: pile.
adjective
1.
Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.  "The moon is down" , "Our team is down by a run" , "Down by a pawn" , "The stock market is down today"
2.
Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.  Synonym: downward.  "The downward course of the stream"
3.
Becoming progressively lower.
4.
Being put out by a strikeout.
5.
Understood perfectly.  Synonyms: down pat, mastered.
6.
Lower than previously.  Synonym: depressed.  "Prices are down"
7.
Shut.
8.
Not functioning (temporarily or permanently).
9.
Filled with melancholy and despondency.  Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.  "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"
verb
(past & past part. downed; pres. part. downing)
1.
Drink down entirely.  Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off.  "She killed a bottle of brandy that night" , "They popped a few beer after work"
2.
Eat immoderately.  Synonyms: consume, devour, go through.
3.
Bring down or defeat (an opponent).
4.
Shoot at and force to come down.  Synonyms: land, shoot down.
5.
Cause to come or go down.  Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down.  "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
6.
Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.  Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine.



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"Down" Quotes from Famous Books



... was told to show the governess into the library. She went down with her bonnet on, ready dressed to go out. Before she had been five minutes with my mistress she came out again, and rang the hall-bell, and spoke to Joseph. 'My boxes are packed and directed,' ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins
... nurse is likely to be absent, from a fear of her "coming in upon" him or speaking to him, just at the moment when he finds it quite as much as he can do to crawl from his bed to his chair, or from one room to another, or down stairs, or out of doors for a few minutes. Some extra call made upon his attention at that moment will quite upset him. In these cases you may be sure that a patient in the state we have described does not make such exertions more than ...
— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale
... come down here to talk about secession, but to see if the southern climate would ...
— Seven Wives and Seven Prisons • L.A. Abbott
... malice. I was a woman too at Oxydrace, When planting on the walls a scaling ladder; I mounted spite of showers of stones, bars, arrows, And all the lumber which they thunder'd down. When you beneath cry'd and out spread your arms, That I should leap among you—did ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 • Various
... June when Kirtley, who had been away the afternoon and evening before, came down to breakfast, he found the household upset. Something bad had happened. Tekla was gone. Rudi was not to be seen. Frau had prepared a partial meal and Elsa was making ready to sweep and dust and tidy up ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry


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