Main entry: down
Definition: (American football) a complete play to advance the football
Usage: you have four downs to gain ten yards
Main entry: down, down feather
Definition: soft fine feathers
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)
Main entry: down
Definition: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
Main entry: Down, John L. H. Down
Definition: English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
Main entry: polish, refine, fine-tune, down
Definition: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
Usage: refine one's style of writing
Main entry: down
Definition: bring down or defeat (an opponent)
Main entry: consume, down, devour, go through
Definition: eat immoderately
Usage: Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Main entry: toss off, down, drink down, belt down, bolt down, pop, pour down, kill
Definition: drink down entirely
Usage: He downed three martinis before dinner; She killed a bottle of brandy that night; They popped a few beer after work
Main entry: knock down, down, cut down, pull down, push down
Definition: cause to come or go down
Usage: The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect; The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
Main entry: land, down, shoot down
Definition: shoot at and force to come down
Usage: the enemy landed several of our aircraft
Main entry: down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dispirited, depressed, low, low-spirited, grim, gloomy, blue
Definition: filled with melancholy and despondency
Usage: 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
Main entry: down
Definition: not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
Usage: we can't work because the computer is down
Main entry: down
Definition: shut
Usage: the shades were down
Definition: lower than previously
Usage: the market is depressed; prices are down
Main entry: down, down pat, mastered
Definition: understood perfectly
Usage: had his algebra problems down
Main entry: down
Definition: being put out by a strikeout
Usage: two down in the bottom of the ninth
Definition: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
Usage: the down staircase; the downward course of the stream
Main entry: down
Definition: becoming progressively lower
Usage: the down trend in the real estate market
Main entry: down
Definition: being or moving lower in position or less in some value
Usage: lay face down; the moon is down; our team is down by a run; down by a pawn; the stock market is down today
Main entry: down, downward, downwardly, downwards
Definition: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
Usage: don't fall down; rode the lift up and skied down; prices plunged downward
Main entry: down
Definition: away from a more central or a more northerly place
Usage: was sent down to work at the regional office; worked down on the farm; came down for the wedding; flew down to Florida
Main entry: down
Definition: paid in cash at time of purchase
Usage: put ten dollars down on the necklace
Main entry: down
Definition: in an inactive or inoperative state
Usage: the factory went down during the strike; the computer went down again
Main entry: down
Definition: to a lower intensity
Usage: he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black
Main entry: down
Definition: from an earlier time
Usage: the story was passed down from father to son