Sounds | daw'n | |
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Rhymes | Allentown ... Youngstown: 56 rhymes with awn... |
Meaning | Being or moving lower in position or less in some value. | |
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Narrower | behind | Having the lower score or lagging position in a contest |
downbound | heading in any direction that is conventionally down | |
downcast | directed downward | |
downfield | Toward or in the defending team's end of the playing field | |
downward | On or toward a surface regarded as a base | |
fallen | Having dropped by the force of gravity | |
set | Below the horizon | |
thrown | Caused to fall to the ground | |
weak | tending downward in price | |
See also | descending | coming down or downward |
low | Literal meanings | |
Opposite | up | Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value |
Meaning | Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place. | |
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Synonym | downward | |
Broader | descending | coming down or downward |
Meaning | Becoming progressively lower. | |
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Example | "the down trend in the real estate market" | |
Broader | falling | Becoming lower or less in degree or value |
Meaning | Put out by a strikeout. | |
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Example | "two down in the bottom of the ninth" | |
Broader | out | not allowed to continue to bat / bat or run |
Meaning | understood perfectly. | |
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Example | "had his algebra problems down" | |
Synonyms | down pat, mastered | |
Broader | perfect | complete of its kind and without defect / defect / defect / defect or blemish |
Meaning | Lower than previously. | |
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Example | "prices are down" | |
Synonym | depressed | |
Broader | low | less than normal in degree or intensity or amount |
Spanish | hundido | |
Catalan | ensorrat |
Meaning | shut. | |
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Example | "the shades were down" | |
Broader | lowered | Below the surround or below the normal position |
Meaning | not functioning (temporarily or permanently). | |
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Example | "we can't work because the computer is down" | |
Broader | inoperative | not working or taking effect |
Meaning | Filled with melancholy and despondency. | |
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Synonyms | gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited | |
Broader | dejected | affected or marked by low spirits |
Spanish | bajo, decaído, deprimida, deprimido, desalentado, desanimado | |
Catalan | abatut, aclaparat, alacaigut, capbaix, capmoix, deprimit, desanimat, descoratjat, pansit |
Meaning | Soft fine feathers. | |
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Synonym | down feather | |
Narrower | duck down | down of the duck |
goose down | down of the goose | |
plumule | down feather of young birds | |
swan's down | down of the swan | |
Broader | feather, plume, plumage | The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
Spanish | flojel, plumón | |
Catalan | borrissol, fluixell, plomissol | |
Adjectives | downy | like down / down or as soft as down / down |
Meaning | (American football) a complete play to advance the football. | |
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Example | "you have four downs to gain ten yards" | |
Category | American football, American football game | A game / game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long |
Broader | turn, play | (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession / succession |
Meaning | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896). | |
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Synonym | John L. H. Down | |
Instance of | doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico | A licensed medical practitioner |
Meaning | (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil. | |
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Broader | highland, upland | Elevated (e.g., mountainous) land |
Usage of | plural, plural form | The form of a word that is used to denote more than one |
Meaning | fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs). | |
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Synonym | pile | |
Narrower | lanugo | The fine downy hair covering a human fetus |
Broader | hair | A covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head) |
Adjectives | downy | covered with fine soft hairs or down |
Meaning | spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position. | |
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Synonyms | downwards, downward, downwardly | |
Opposite | up, upwards, upward, upwardly | spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position |
Spanish | abajo, hacia abajo | |
Catalan | a baix, cap avall |
Meaning | Away from a more central or a more northerly place. | |
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Opposite | up | To a more central or a more northerly place |
Meaning | paid in cash / cash at time of purchase. | |
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Example | "put ten dollars down on the necklace" |
Meaning | From an earlier time. | |
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Example | "the story was passed down from father to son" | |
Spanish | abajo |
Meaning | To a lower intensity. | |
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Example | "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" | |
Opposite | up | To a higher intensity |
Spanish | abajo |
Meaning | In an inactive or inoperative state. | |
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Meaning | drink down entirely. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "He downed three martinis before dinner" | |
Synonyms | toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, drink down, kill | |
Broader | drink, imbibe | take in liquids / liquids |
Spanish | acabarse, beberse, meterse, servirse, terminarse |
Meaning | Eat immoderately. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
Model | They down more bread | |
Example | "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" | |
Synonyms | devour, demolish, consume, go through | |
Broader | eat up, finish, polish off | Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table |
Spanish | consumir, devorar, ingerir | |
Catalan | consumir, devorar, ingerir |
Meaning | bring down or defeat (an opponent) . | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Model | The fighter managed to down his opponent | |
Category | sport, athletics | An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition |
Broader | get the better of, overcome, defeat | win a victory over |
Spanish | abatir, derribar |
Meaning | Shoot at and force to come down. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | shoot down, land | |
Spanish | derribar |
Meaning | Cause to come or go down. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
Model | The fighter managed to down his opponent | |
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Synonyms | knock down, cut down, push down, pull down | |
Narrower | submarine | bring down with a blow to the legs |
Broader | strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon |
Spanish | derribar, tumbar | |
Nouns | downer | a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person |
Meaning | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | polish, refine, fine-tune | |
Narrower | educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise | Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment |
overrefine, over-refine | refine too much or with excess of subtlety | |
Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate | To make better |
Spanish | afinar, perfeccionar, pulimentar, pulir, refinar | |
Catalan | afinar, polir, refinar |
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