down
adverb
[ daʊn ]
• towards or in a lower place or position, especially to or on the ground or another surface.
• "she looked down"
Similar:
towards a lower position,
downwards,
downstairs,
towards the bottom,
from top to bottom,
to the ground,
to the floor,
over,
• to or at a lower level of intensity, volume, or activity.
• "keep the noise down"
• in or into a weaker or worse position, mood, or condition.
• "he was down with the flu"
• in or into writing.
• "Graham noted the numbers down carefully"
• (with reference to partial payment of a sum of money) made initially or on the spot.
• "pay £5 down and the rest at the end of the month"
• (of sailing) with the current or the wind.
• (of the ball or a player in possession) not in play, typically through progress being stopped.
down
preposition
• from a higher to a lower point of (something).
• "up and down the stairs"
Similar:
lower in/on,
to the bottom of,
• throughout (a period of time).
• "astrologers down the ages"
down
adjective
• directed or moving towards a lower place or position.
• "the down escalator"
• unhappy or depressed.
• "he's been so down lately"
Similar:
depressed,
sad,
saddened,
unhappy,
melancholy,
miserable,
wretched,
sorrowful,
gloomy,
dejected,
downhearted,
disheartened,
despondent,
dispirited,
low,
in low spirits,
low-spirited,
heavy-hearted,
glum,
morose,
dismal,
downcast,
cast down,
tearful,
blue,
down in the dumps,
down in the mouth,
fed up,
• (of a computer system) temporarily out of action or unavailable.
• "sorry, but the computer's down"
Similar:
not working,
not functioning,
not functional,
not in working order,
not in operation,
inoperative,
malfunctioning,
out of order,
broken,
broken-down,
acting up,
unserviceable,
faulty,
defective,
in disrepair,
not in service,
unavailable for use,
not in use,
out of action,
out of commission,
conked out,
bust,
(gone) kaput,
gone phut,
on the blink,
gone haywire,
shot,
knackered,
jiggered,
wonky,
on the fritz,
out of whack,
buggered,
• supporting or going along with someone or something.
• "you got to be down with me"
• denoting a flavour (variety) of stable quark having relatively low mass and an electric charge of − 1/3. In the Standard Model protons and neutrons are composed of up and down quarks.
down
verb
• knock or bring to the ground.
• "175 enemy aircraft had been downed"
Similar:
knock down,
knock over,
knock to the ground,
throw to the ground,
bring down,
bring to the ground,
fell,
topple,
prostrate,
tackle,
rugby-tackle,
trip up,
deck,
floor,
flatten,
• consume (something, typically a drink).
• "he downed five pints of cider"
Similar:
drink (up/down),
gulp (down),
guzzle,
quaff,
drain,
imbibe,
sup,
slurp,
suck,
sip,
swallow,
finish off,
polish off,
sink,
swig,
swill (down),
toss off,
slug,
knock back,
put away,
kill,
neck,
scarf (down/up),
snarf (down/up),
chug,
ingurgitate,
down
noun
• a period of unwelcome experiences or negative mood.
• "there had been more downs than ups during his years at the company"
Similar:
setbacks,
upsets,
reverses,
reversals,
reversals of fortune,
downturns,
mishaps,
strokes of ill luck,
strokes of bad luck,
accidents,
shocks,
vicissitudes,
crises,
catastrophes,
tragedies,
calamities,
trials,
crosses,
knocks,
burdens,
blows,
buffets,
glitches,
(double) whammies,
knock-backs,
foils,
fit of depression,
period of despondency,
the blues,
the dumps,
one's black dog,
a low,
the blahs,
a funk,
a blue funk,
the mopes,
dolour,
the megrims,
• a chance for a team to advance the ball, ending when the ball carrier is tackled or the ball becomes out of play. A team must advance at least ten yards in a series of four downs in order to keep possession.
Origin:
Old English dūn, dūne, shortened from adūne ‘downward’, from the phrase of dūne ‘off the hill’ (see down3).
down
noun
• soft, fine, fluffy feathers which form the first covering of a young bird or an insulating layer below the contour feathers of an adult bird.
• "the baby penguins' woolly down is essential in the Antarctic winter"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse dúnn .
down
noun
• a gently rolling hill.
• "the gentle green contours of the downs"
• a stretch of sea off the east coast of Kent, sheltered by the Goodwin Sands.
Origin:
Old English dūn ‘hill’ (related to Dutch duin ‘dune’), probably ultimately of Celtic origin and related to Old Irish dún and obsolete Welsh din ‘fort’, which are from an Indo-European root shared by town.
