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down meaning and definition
Definition and meaning of down at MeaningMonkey.org. down meaning and definition in the English Dictionary.DOWN noun
Definition of down (noun)
- soft fine feathers
- synonyms: down feather
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
- synonyms: John L. H. Down
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- 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
DOWN verb
Definition of down (verb)
- drink down entirely
- eat immoderately
- "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- synonyms: consume, devour, go through
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- shoot at and force to come down
- "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
- synonyms: land, shoot 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"
- synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
DOWN adjective
Definition of down (adjective)
- 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"
- antonym: up
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
- synonyms: downward
- becoming progressively lower
- "the down trend in the real estate market"
- being put out by a strikeout
- "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
- understood perfectly
- lower than previously
- "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
- synonyms: depressed
- shut
- "the shades were down"
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- "we can't work because the computer is down"
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "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"
- synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited
DOWN adverb
Definition of down (adverb)
- 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"
- synonyms: downward, downwardly, downwards
- antonym: up
- 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"
- antonym: up
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
- from an earlier time
- "the story was passed down from father to son"
- to a lower intensity
- "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
- antonym: up
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
Source: Princeton University Wordnet