down Meaning and Definition

1. a. being or moving lower in position or less in some value

2. n. (American football) a complete play to advance the football

3. n. soft fine feathers

4. n. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

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

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

7. r. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

8. r. away from a more central or a more northerly place

9. r. paid in cash at time of purchase

10. r. in an inactive or inoperative state

11. r. to a lower intensity

12. r. from an earlier time

13. s. low in spirits

14. s. not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

15. s. shut

16. s. lower than previously

17. s. understood perfectly

18. s. being put out by a strikeout

19. s. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

20. s. becoming progressively lower

21. v. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

22. v. bring down or defeat (an opponent)

23. v. eat immoderately

24. v. drink down entirely

25. v. cause to come or go down

26. v. shoot at and force to come down