Quotes about "down"

• Noun: soft fine feathers

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

• Noun: English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• Noun: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• Noun: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• Verb: drink down entirely; examples: "He downed three martinis before dinner", "She killed a bottle of brandy that night", "They popped a few beer after work"

• Verb: eat immoderately; example: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

• Verb: bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• Verb: shoot at and force to come down; example: "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

• Verb: cause to come or go down; examples: "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect", "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

• Verb: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; example: "refine one's style of writing"

• Adj: being or moving lower in position or less in some value; 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"

• Adj: becoming progressively lower; example: "the down trend in the real estate market"

• Adj: understood perfectly; example: "had his algebra problems down"

• Adj: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; examples: "the down staircase", "the downward course of the stream"

• Adj: being put out by a strikeout; example: "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

• Adj: lower than previously; examples: "the market is depressed", "prices are down"

• Adj: shut; example: "the shades were down"

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

• Adj: low in spirits; examples: "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"

• Adv: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; examples: "don't fall down", "rode the lift up and skied down", "prices plunged downward"

• Adv: away from a more central or a more northerly place; examples: "was sent down to work at the regional office", "worked down on the farm", "came down for the wedding", "flew down to Florida"

• Adv: paid in cash at time of purchase; example: "put ten dollars down on the necklace"

• Adv: from an earlier time; example: "the story was passed down from father to son"

• Adv: to a lower intensity; example: "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"

• Adv: in an inactive or inoperative state; examples: "the factory went down during the strike", "the computer went down again"