down /dæʊn/
synset: down, down_feather
2. (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
synset: down
3. English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
synset: Down, John_L._H._Down
4. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
synset: down
5. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
1. drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
synset: toss_off, pop, bolt_down, belt_down, pour_down, down, drink_down, kill
2. eat up completely, as with great appetite; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"
synset: devour, demolish, down, consume, go_through
3. bring down or defeat (an opponent)
synset: down
4. shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
synset: down, shoot_down, land
5. cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
synset: down, knock_down, cut_down, push_down, pull_down
6. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
synset: polish, refine, fine-tune, down
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"
synset: down
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
3. becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"
synset: down
4. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
synset: down
5. understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"
synset: down, down_pat, mastered
6. lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
7. shut; "the shades were down"
synset: down
8. not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down"
synset: down
9. filled with melancholy and despondency; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "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"
synset: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down_in_the_mouth, low, low-spirited
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"
synset: down, downwards, downward, downwardly
antonym: up, upwards, upward, upwardly
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 Florida"
synset: down
3. paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
synset: down
4. from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son"
synset: down
5. to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
synset: down
6. in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
synset: down
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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