[ noun ]
■ (American football) a complete play to advance the football
e.g.)
・you have four downs to gain ten yards
[ noun ]
■ soft fine feathers
→
down feather
[ 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)
→
pile
[ noun ]
■ (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
[ noun ]
■ English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
→
john l. h. down
[ verb ]
■ improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
→
fine-tune
,
polish
,
refine
[ verb ]
■ bring down or defeat (an opponent)
[ verb ]
■ eat immoderately
e.g.)
・Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
→
consume
,
devour
,
go through
[ verb ]
■ drink down entirely
e.g.)
・He downed three martinis before dinner
→
belt down
,
bolt down
,
drink down
,
kill
,
pop
,
pour down
,
toss off
[ verb ]
■ cause to come or go down
e.g.)
・The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
・The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
→
cut down
,
knock down
,
pull down
,
push down
[ verb ]
■ shoot at and force to come down
→
land
,
shoot down
[ adjective satellite ]
■ filled with melancholy and despondency
e.g.)
・downcast after his defeat
・feeling discouraged and downhearted
→
blue
,
depressed
,
dispirited
,
down in the mouth
,
downcast
,
downhearted
,
gloomy
,
grim
,
low
,
low-spirited
[ adjective satellite ]
■ not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
e.g.)
・we can't work because the computer is down
[ adjective satellite ]
■ shut
e.g.)
・the shades were down
[ adjective satellite ]
■ lower than previously
e.g.)
・prices are down
→
depressed
[ adjective satellite ]
■ understood perfectly
e.g.)
・had his algebra problems down
→
down pat
,
mastered
[ adjective satellite ]
■ being put out by a strikeout
e.g.)
・two down in the bottom of the ninth
[ adjective satellite ]
■ extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
e.g.)
・the down staircase
・the downward course of the stream
→
downward
[ adjective satellite ]
■ becoming progressively lower
e.g.)
・the down trend in the real estate market
[ adjective ]
■ being or moving lower in position or less in some value
e.g.)
・lay face down
・the moon is down
・our team is down by a run
・down by a pawn
・the stock market is down today
[ adverb ]
■ spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
e.g.)
・don't fall down
・rode the lift up and skied down
・prices plunged downward
→
downward
,
downwardly
,
downwards
[ adverb ]
■ away from a more central or a more northerly place
e.g.)
・was sent down to work at the regional office
・worked down on the farm
・came down for the wedding
・flew down to Florida
[ adverb ]
■ paid in cash at time of purchase
e.g.)
・put ten dollars down on the necklace
[ adverb ]
■ in an inactive or inoperative state
e.g.)
・the factory went down during the strike
・the computer went down again
[ adverb ]
■ to a lower intensity
e.g.)
・he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black
[ adverb ]
■ from an earlier time
e.g.)
・the story was passed down from father to son
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