down [ daunz ]

• n.
  • soft fine feathers

    同义词： down feather

  • (American football) a complete play to advance the football

    "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

  • English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

    同义词： John L. H. Down

  • (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
  • fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

    同义词： pile

• v.
  • drink down entirely

    "He downed three martinis before dinner"

    同义词： toss off pop bolt down belt down pour down drink down kill

  • eat immoderately

    "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

    同义词： devour consume go through

  • bring down or defeat (an opponent)
  • shoot at and force to come down

    同义词： shoot down land

  • 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"

    同义词： knock down cut down push down pull down

  • improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

    同义词： polish refine fine-tune

• adj.
  • 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"

  • becoming progressively lower

    "the down trend in the real estate market"

  • understood perfectly

    "had his algebra problems down"

    同义词： down pat(p) mastered

  • extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

    "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"

    同义词： downward(a)

  • being put out by a strikeout

    "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

  • lower than previously

    "prices are down"

    同义词： depressed

  • shut

    "the shades were down"

  • not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

    "we can't work because the computer is down"

  • low in spirits

    "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

    同义词： blue depressed dispirited downcast downhearted down in the mouth low low-spirited

• adv.
  • 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"

    同义词： downwards downward downwardly

  • 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"

  • paid in cash at time of purchase

    "put ten dollars down on the necklace"

  • from an earlier time

    "the story was passed down from father to son"

  • to a lower intensity

    "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"

  • in an inactive or inoperative state

    "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"

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