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adv (English)
1. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.Examples: "The cat jumped down from the table."; "She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man."; "To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks."comparablenot-comparableusually
2. (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.Examples: "His place is farther down the road."; "The company was well down the path to bankruptcy."; "It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar."comparablenot-comparableusually
3. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.not-comparableusually
4. (UK, academia, dated) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.Examples: "He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas."UKdatednot-comparableusually
5. (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).Examples: "The charity match, played Sunday afternoon at Cirencester Park Polo Club in Gloucestershire, reached a dramatic climax when Prince Harry tore down the pitch but failed to score what was described as an “open goal”."; "By moving further down the pitch, the batsman lengthens the distance between the ball and the stumps."not-comparableusually
6. (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.Examples: "I'm stuck on 11 down."not-comparableusually
prep (English)
1. (colloquial) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).Examples: "I'll see you later down the pub."colloquial
adj (English)
1. (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.Examples: "Mary seems very down since she split up with her boyfriend."; "Been down so long it seems like up to me"; "We get down, down, down / We feel sorry for ourselves / We get down, down, down / We all need somebody's help"Synonyms: miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallenAntonyms: upinformal
2. Sick, wounded, or damaged:Examples: "He is down with the flu."
3. Sick, wounded, or damaged:Examples: "We have an officer down outside the suspect's house."; "There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded."not-comparableslang
4. Sick, wounded, or damaged:Examples: "a down cow"Synonyms: downer
5. Sick, wounded, or damaged:Examples: "We have a chopper down near the river."not-comparableslang
6. Sick, wounded, or damaged:Examples: "The system is down."Antonyms: upnot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.Examples: "The storm downed several old trees along the highway."; "A single rifle shot downed the mighty beast."transitive
2. (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.Examples: "The helicopter was downed by a surface-to-air missile."transitive
3. (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.Examples: "The bell rang for lunch, and the workers downed their tools."transitive
4. (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.Examples: "To down proud hearts that would not willing die."figurativelytransitive
5. (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.Examples: "‘I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the Wits, once at our House, – when they talked of Ghosts.’"; "Now you have a social worker who downs women who are gay! […] I have met a woman and fell in love with her and I still get humiliated and discriminated against because he (social worker) is against homosexuality and is causing a lot of confusion here."colloquialtransitive
6. (intransitive, rare or obsolete) To go or come down; to descend.Examples: "...that is, that the trade of the world is too little for us two, therefore one must down."intransitiveobsoleterare
noun (English)
1. (dated) A grudge (on someone).Examples: "She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word."dated
2. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.Examples: "I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field."
3. (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.Examples: "I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs."
4. (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
noun (English)
1. (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.Examples: "We went for a walk over the downs."; "The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England."; "And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down"AustraliaSouthern-Englandalsocountableespeciallyoftenpluraluncountable
2. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.countableplural-normallyuncountable
3. (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.Examples: "Seven thousand broad-taild Sheepe gras'd on his Downes;"UKcountablein-pluraluncountable
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