down
adj 1: 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" [ant: {up}]
2: becoming progressively lower; "steadily declining incomes";
"the down trend in the real estate market" [syn: {declining},
{down(a)}]
3: understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down" [syn:
{down pat(p)}, {mastered}]
4: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the
down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" [syn:
{down(a)}, {downward(a)}]
5: out; "two down in the last of the ninth" [syn: {down(p)}]
6: lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices
are down" [syn: {depressed}, {down(p)}]
7: shut; "the shades were down"
8: (used of computers) temporarily not operating; "can't do a
thing because the computers are down" [syn: {down(p)}]
9: cut down; "the tree is down" [syn: {cut}, {cut down}]
10: not functioning; "we can't work because the computer is
down"
11: low in spirits; "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" [syn: {blue},
{depressed}, {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downcast}, {downhearted},
{low}, {low-spirited}]
12: the fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase; "the
down payment"; "a payment of $200 down"
n 1: soft fine feathers
2: a complete play to advance the football; "you have 4 downs
to gain 10 yards"
3: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little
soil
adv 1: 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" [syn: {downwards},
{downward}, {downwardly}] [ant: {up}, {up}, {up}, {up}]
2: 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
Flordia" [ant: {up}]
3: paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on
the necklace"
4: from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father
to son"
5: to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until
the stage was completely black" [ant: {up}]
6: in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down
during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
v 1: drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before
dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"
[syn: {toss off}, {bolt down}, {belt down}, {pour down},
{drink down}, {kill}]
2: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
the course of one meal" [syn: {devour}, {consume}, {go
through}]
3: bring down or defeat, in sports
4: shoot at and force to come down; of aircraft [syn: {shoot
down}, {land}]
5: cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily
armed suspect" [syn: {knock down}, {cut down}, {push down},
{pull down}]
6: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's
style of writing" [syn: {polish}, {refine}, {fine-tune}]