| 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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