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down   (TTS Sound)

The noun down has 5 senses

• down, down feather -- (soft fine feathers)


• down -- ((American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards")


• Down, John L. H. Down -- (English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896))


• down -- ((usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil)


• down, pile -- (fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs))

The verb down has 6 senses

• toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill -- (drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work")


• devour, down, consume, go through -- (eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal")


• down -- (bring down or defeat (an opponent))


• down, shoot down, land -- (shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft")


• down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down -- (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")


• polish, refine, fine-tune, down -- (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing")

The adj down has 9 senses

• down -- (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")


• down, downward -- (extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream")


• down -- (becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market")


• down -- (being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth")


• down, down pat, mastered -- (understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down")


• depressed, down -- (lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down")


• down -- (shut; "the shades were down")


• down -- (not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down")


• gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited -- (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")

The adv down has 6 senses

• down, downwards, downward, downwardly -- (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")


• down -- (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")


• down -- (paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace")


• down -- (from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son")


• down -- (to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black")


• down -- (in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again")