DICTOMETER

DOWN(PREDICATE)

(down, abajo, ned, nede, nedover)

1. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Down feather
   Definitions:
   • soft fine feathers
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • (American football) a complete play to advance the football
   Examples:
   • You have four downs to gain ten yards
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • John L. H. Down
   Definitions:
   • English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Pile
   Definitions:
   • fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Toss off
   • Pop
   • Bolt down
   • Belt down
   • Pour down
   • Down
   • Drink down
   • Kill
   Definitions:
   • 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
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Devour
   • Down
   • Consume
   • Go through
   Definitions:
   • eat immoderately
   Examples:
   • Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • bring down or defeat (an opponent)
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Shoot down
   • Land
   Definitions:
   • shoot at and force to come down
   Examples:
   • The enemy landed several of our aircraft
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Knock down
   • Cut down
   • Push down
   • Pull down
   Definitions:
   • 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
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Polish
   • Refine
   • Fine-tune
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
   Examples:
   • Refine one's style of writing
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • UP
   • ahead(predicate), in the lead, leading
   • aweigh
   • dormie, dormy
   • heavenward, skyward
   • risen
   • sprouted
   • upbound
   • upfield
   • upward
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Downward
   Definitions:
   • extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
   Examples:
   • The down staircase
   • The downward course of the stream
   Antonyms:
   • Ascending
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • becoming progressively lower
   Examples:
   • The down trend in the real estate market
   Antonyms:
   • Rising
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • being put out by a strikeout
   Examples:
   • Two down in the bottom of the ninth
   Antonyms:
   • Safe
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Down pat
   • Mastered
   Definitions:
   • understood perfectly
   Examples:
   • Had his algebra problems down
   Antonyms:
   • Imperfect
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Depressed
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • lower than previously
   Examples:
   • The market is depressed
   • Prices are down
   Antonyms:
   • High
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • shut
   Examples:
   • The shades were down
   Antonyms:
   • Raised
   
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
   Examples:
   • We can't work because the computer is down
   Antonyms:
   • Operative
   
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Gloomy
   • Grim
   • Blue
   • Depressed
   • Dispirited
   • Down
   • Downcast
   • Downhearted
   • Down in the mouth
   • Low
   • Low-spirited
   Definitions:
   • filled with melancholy and despondency
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Elated
   
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Down
   • Downwards
   • Downward
   • Downwardly
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   up, upwards, upward, upwardly
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   up
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • paid in cash at time of purchase
   Examples:
   • Put ten dollars down on the necklace
   Antonyms:
   up
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • from an earlier time
   Examples:
   • The story was passed down from father to son
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • to a lower intensity
   Examples:
   • He slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • in an inactive or inoperative state
   Examples:
   • The factory went down during the strike
   • The computer went down again