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Sounds | daw'n |
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Rhymes | Allentown, around, Beantown, and 52 more rhymes in awn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Being or moving lower in position or less in some value. |
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Examples | "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" |
Similar | behind, trailing; downbound; downcast; downfield; downward; fallen; set; thrown |
See also | low; descending |
Contrary | up |
Meaning | Becoming progressively lower. |
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Examples | "the down trend in the real estate market" |
Similar to | falling |
Meaning | Understood perfectly. |
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Examples | "had his algebra problems down" |
Synonyms | down pat, mastered |
Similar to | perfect |
Meaning | Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place. |
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Examples | "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" |
Synonyms | downward |
Similar to | descending |
Meaning | Out. |
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Examples | "two down in the last of the ninth" |
Similar to | out, retired |
Meaning | Lower than previously. |
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Examples | "prices are down" |
Synonyms | depressed |
Similar to | low |
Meaning | Shut. |
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Examples | "the shades were down" |
Similar to | lowered |
Meaning | Cut down. |
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Examples | "the tree is down" |
Synonyms | cut, cut down |
Similar to | felled, downed |
Meaning | Not functioning (temporarily or permanently). |
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Examples | "we can't work because the computer is down" |
Similar to | inoperative |
Meaning | Low in spirits. |
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Examples | "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" |
Synonyms | blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited |
Similar to | dejected |
Meaning | The fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase. |
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Examples | "the down payment"; "a payment of $200 down" |
Similar to | fractional |
Meaning | Soft fine feathers. |
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Synonyms | down feather |
Narrower | duck down; goose down; swan's down; plumule |
Broader | feather, plume, plumage |
Meaning | (American football) a complete play to advance the football. |
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Examples | "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards" |
Category | American football, American football game |
Broader | turn, play |
Meaning | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896). |
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Synonyms | John L. H. Down |
Broader | doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico |
Meaning | (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil. |
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Broader | highland, upland |
Usage | plural, plural form |
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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Synonyms | pile |
Narrower | lanugo |
Broader | hair |
Meaning | Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position. |
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Examples | "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" |
Synonyms | downwards, downward, downwardly |
Contrary | up, upwards, upward, upwardly |
Meaning | Away from a more central or a more northerly place. |
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Examples | "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida" |
Contrary | up |
Meaning | Paid in cash at time of purchase. |
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Examples | "put ten dollars down on the necklace" |
Meaning | From an earlier time. |
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Examples | "the story was passed down from father to son" |
Meaning | To a lower intensity. |
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Examples | "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" |
Contrary | up |
Meaning | In an inactive or inoperative state. |
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Examples | "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again" |
Meaning | Drink down entirely. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He downed three martinis before dinner" |
Synonyms | toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, drink down, kill |
Broader | drink, imbibe |
Meaning | Eat immoderately. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Model | They down more bread |
Examples | "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
Synonyms | devour, consume, go through |
Broader | eat |
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 |
Broader | get the better of, overcome, defeat |
Meaning | Shoot at and force to come down. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | shoot down, land |
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 |
Examples | "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" |
Synonyms | knock down, cut down, push down, pull down |
Narrower | submarine |
Broader | strike |
Nouns | downer |
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 | overrefine, over-refine; educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise |
Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate |