Noun | 1. | down - soft fine feathers Synonyms: down feather |
2. | down - (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards" | |
3. | Down - English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) Synonyms: John L. H. Down | |
4. | down - (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | |
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 | |
Verb | 1. | down - drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work" |
2. | down - eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" | |
3. | down - bring down or defeat (an opponent) | |
4. | down - shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" Synonyms: shoot down, land | |
5. | 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" | |
6. | down - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" | |
Adj. | 1. | 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" |
2. | down - becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market" | |
3. | down - understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down" | |
4. | down - extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" Synonyms: downward | |
5. | down - out; "two down in the last of the ninth" | |
6. | down - lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" Synonyms: depressed | |
7. | down - shut; "the shades were down" | |
8. | down - cut down; "the tree is down" | |
9. | down - not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down" | |
10. | down - low in spirits; "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" | |
11. | down - the fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase; "the down payment"; "a payment of $200 down" | |
Adv. | 1. | 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" |
2. | 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" | |
3. | down - paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace" | |
4. | down - from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son" | |
5. | 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" | |
6. | down - in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again" |
1. | down - Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this term has passed into the mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is still hackish. | ||
2. | down - "go down" To stop functioning; usually said of the system. The message from the console that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is "System going down in 5 minutes". | ||
3. | down - "take down", "bring down" To deactivate purposely, usually
for repair work or PM. "I'm taking the system down to work
on that bug in the tape drive." Occasionally one hears the
word "down" by itself used as a verb in this sense. See crash; opposite: up. |