Don

n 1: a Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman [syn:

{Don}]

2: (British) teacher at a university of college (especially at

Cambridge or Oxford) [syn: {preceptor}]

3: (Welsh) goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrod(Arianrhod);

corresponds to Irish Danu [syn: {Don}]

4: a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea

of Azov [syn: {Don}, {Don River}]

v : put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He

put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess

donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately

robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: {wear}, {put on}, {get

into}, {assume}]

down

1. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a

humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always

means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what

floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this

term has passed into the mainstream; the extension to other

kinds of machine is still hackish.

2. "go down" To stop functioning; usually said of the

{system}. The message from the {console} that every hacker

hates to hear from the operator is "System going down in 5

minutes".

3. "take down", "bring down" To deactivate purposely, usually

for repair work or {PM}. "I'm taking the system down to work

on that bug in the tape drive." Occasionally one hears the

word "down" by itself used as a verb in this sense.

See {crash}; opposite: {up}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-12-07)