Definition of Down

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Definition of Down

Down

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.

The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.

The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.

That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down

To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.

A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.

A state of depression; low state; abasement.

In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.

From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.

In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.

From a remoter or higher antiquity.

From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.

In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.

Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.

To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.

To go down; to descend.

Downcast; as, a down look.

Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.

Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

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Down Quotations

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

Down Translations

down in Afrikaans is ondertoe
down in Danish is nedad, dun
down in Dutch is waas, nesthaar, dons
down in Finnish is untuva
down in French is duvet, culbuter
down in Italian is abbasso, abbasso, abbasso, a basso
down in Norwegian is ned
down in Portuguese is para baixo

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