Meaning : Soft fine feathers.
Synonyms : down feather
Meaning : (American football) a complete play to advance the football.
Example :
You have four downs to gain ten yards.
Meaning : English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896).
Synonyms : john l. h. down
Meaning : (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil.
Meaning : 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
Meaning : Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.
Example :
Lay face down.
The moon is down.
Our team is down by a run.
Down by a pawn.
The stock market is down today.
Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value. Being above a former position or level.
The anchor is up.Meaning : Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.
Example :
The down staircase.
The downward course of the stream.
Synonyms : downward
Meaning : Becoming progressively lower.
Example :
The down trend in the real estate market.
Meaning : Being put out by a strikeout.
Example :
Two down in the bottom of the ninth.
Meaning : Lower than previously.
Example :
The market is depressed.
Prices are down.
Synonyms : depressed
Meaning : Shut.
Example :
The shades were down.
Meaning : Not functioning (temporarily or permanently).
Example :
We can't work because the computer is down.
Meaning : Filled with melancholy and despondency.
Example :
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 : blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
Meaning : Eat up completely, as with great appetite.
Example :
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal.
The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them.
Synonyms : consume, demolish, devour, go through
Meaning : Bring down or defeat (an opponent).
Meaning : Shoot at and force to come down.
Example :
The enemy landed several of our aircraft.
Synonyms : land, shoot down
Meaning : Cause to come or go down.
Example :
The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect.
The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet.
Synonyms : cut down, knock down, pull down, push down
Meaning : Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
Example :
Don't fall down.
Rode the lift up and skied down.
Prices plunged downward.
Synonyms : downward, downwardly, downwards
Meaning : Away from a more central or a more northerly place.
Example :
Was sent down to work at the regional office.
Worked down on the farm.
Came down for the wedding.
Flew down to Florida.
To a more central or a more northerly place.
Was transferred up to headquarters.Meaning : Paid in cash at time of purchase.
Example :
Put ten dollars down on the necklace.
Meaning : From an earlier time.
Example :
The story was passed down from father to son.
Meaning : To a lower intensity.
Example :
He slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black.
Meaning : In an inactive or inoperative state.
Example :
The factory went down during the strike.
The computer went down again.
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