drown

v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in

work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: {submerge},

{overwhelm}]

2: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in

alcohol"

3: die by drowning in water; "The child drowned in the lake"

4: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"

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)