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down

adjective
  1. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
    downward
  2. becoming progressively lower
  3. not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
    “we can't work because the computer is down”
  4. shut
    “the shades were down”
  5. understood perfectly
    “I had my algebra problems down.”
    down patmastered
  6. being or moving lower in position or less in some value
    “lay face down”
  7. filled with melancholy and despondency
    low
  8. lower than previously
    depressed
  9. being put out by a strikeout
adverb
  1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
    “don't fall down”
    downwardsdownwarddownwardly
  2. away from a more central or a more northerly place
    “was sent down to work at the regional office”
  3. paid in cash at time of purchase
    “put ten dollars down on the necklace”
  4. in an inactive or inoperative state
    “the factory went down during the strike”
  5. to a lower intensity
    “The stagehand slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black.”
  6. from an earlier time
    “the story was passed down from father to son”
noun
  1. a complete play to advance the football, in American football
    “You have four downs to gain ten yards.”
  2. soft fine feathers
    down feather
  3. 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
  4. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
verb
  1. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
    polishfine-tunerefine
  2. bring down or defeat (an opponent)
  3. eat immoderately
    “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”
    go through
  4. drink down entirely
    “They downed three martinis before dinner.”
    kill
  5. cause to come or go down
    “The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect”
    knock downcut downpush downpull down
  6. shoot at and force to come down
    shoot downland