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Noun
Definition: (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
Definition: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
Definition: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
Definition: A negative aspect; a downer.
Definition: A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
Definition: Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
Verb
Definition: drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
Definition: 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"
Definition: bring down or defeat (an opponent)
Definition: shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Definition: 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"
Definition: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
Definition: To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell.
Definition: To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
Adjective
Definition: 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"
Definition: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
Definition: becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"
Definition: being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
Definition: shut; "the shades were down"
Definition: not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down"
Definition: 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"
Definition: Facing downwards.
Adverb
Definition: 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"
Definition: 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"
Definition: paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
Definition: from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son"
Definition: to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
Definition: in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
Definition: From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.