down

Definitions of down in various dictionaries:

noun - soft fine feathers

noun - (American football) a complete play to advance the football

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

noun - (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

noun - fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

verb - drink down entirely

verb - eat immoderately

verb - bring down or defeat (an opponent)

verb - shoot at and force to come down

verb - cause to come or go down

verb - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

adj - being or moving lower in position or less in some value

adj - extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

adj - becoming progressively lower

adj - being put out by a strikeout

adj - understood perfectly

adj - lower than previously

adj - shut

adj - not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

adj - filled with melancholy and despondency

adv - spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

adv - away from a more central or a more northerly place

adv - paid in cash at time of purchase

adv - from an earlier time

adv - to a lower intensity

adv - in an inactive or inoperative state

From a higher to a lower place or position: hiked down from the peak.

Toward, to, or on the ground, floor, or bottom: tripped and fell down.

In or into a sitting or reclining position: knelt down; lying down.

Toward or in the south; southward: flew down to Florida.

Away from a place considered central or a center of activity, such as a city or town: down on the farm; sent down to work at the firm’s regional office.

Away from the present place.

To a specific location or source: tracking a rumor down.

Toward or at a low or lower point on a scale: from the biggest down to the smallest.

To or in a quiescent or subdued state: calmed down.

In or into an inactive or inoperative state: The generators went down at midnight.

To or at a lower intensity.

To or into a lower or inferior condition, as of subjection, defeat, or disgrace.

To an extreme degree; heavily: worn down by worry.

Seriously or vigorously: get down to the project at hand.

From earlier times or people: tradition handed down from one generation to the next.

To a reduced or concentrated form: pared the term paper down to five pages.

In writing; on paper: wrote the statement down.

In partial payment at the time of purchase: put ten dollars down on the necklace.

Into or toward a secure position: nailed down the boards; bolted the furniture down.

Moving or directed downward: a down elevator.

Low or lower: Stock prices were down today.

Reduced; diminished: The wind is down.

Afflicted; sick: She’s down with a bad cold.

Malfunctioning or not operating, especially temporarily: The computer is down.

Low in spirits; depressed: feeling down today.

Trailing an opponent: a team down 20 points in the last quarter; down two pawns in the endgame.

Not in play: The ball is down on the 50-yard line.

Retired; out: two down in the last of the ninth.

Completed; done: three down, two to go.

Learned or known perfectly: had the algebra problems down.

In a descending direction along, upon, into, or through: rolled down the hill; floating down the river; went down cellar.

Along the course of: walking down the street.

In or at: The cans are stored down cellar.

A downward movement; descent.

Any of a series of four plays during which a team must advance at least ten yards to retain possession of the ball.

To bring, put, strike, or throw down: downed his opponent in the first round.

To swallow hastily; gulp: downed the glass of water.

To put (the ball) out of play by touching it to the ground.

Fine, soft, fluffy feathers forming the first plumage of a young bird and underlying the contour feathers in certain adult birds.

Botany.

A soft, silky, or feathery substance, such as the first growth of a human beard.

Often downs.

Often Down.

verb - to cause to fall

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