Down

(noun.) (American football) a complete play to advance the football; 'you have four downs to gain ten yards'.

(noun.) soft fine feathers.

(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).

(noun.) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil.

(noun.) English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896).

(verb.) bring down or defeat (an opponent).

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) shoot at and force to come down; 'the enemy landed several of our aircraft'.

(adj.) not functioning (temporarily or permanently); 'we can't work because the computer is down' .

(adj.) shut; 'the shades were down' .

(adj.) understood perfectly; 'had his algebra problems down' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) being put out by a strikeout; 'two down in the bottom of the ninth' .

(adj.) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; 'the down staircase'; 'the downward course of the stream' .

(adj.) becoming progressively lower; 'the down trend in the real estate market' .

(adv.) 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'.

(adv.) 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'.

(adv.) paid in cash at time of purchase; 'put ten dollars down on the necklace'.

(adv.) in an inactive or inoperative state; 'the factory went down during the strike'; 'the computer went down again'.

(adv.) to a lower intensity; 'he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black'.

(adv.) from an earlier time; 'the story was passed down from father to son'.

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• I believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that Dr. Ferrier, who lives near me, was going down by that very train. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Come, come, I'll write you a cheque,' said the little man; and down he sat at the table for that purpose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We were then led up to the door, where we were directed to get down on our hands and knees with our backs toward the room we were to enter. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But he had shut it down again, if that were so; and it looked as if it had not been raised. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She usually followed him; but he heard her passing down the passage to her bedroom. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But she took such a long walk up and down our rooms that night, while I was writing to Agnes, that I began to think she meant to walk till morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• We arrived in the Downs on the 13th of April, 1702. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I don't know how many sail the waiter told us were then lying in the downs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• William Guppy, replies the other, I am in the downs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But the windows are narrow, and it is all ups and downs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was in vain to ask why ups, why downs; there they was, you know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The large Indiaman was our great attraction because she had come into the downs in the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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