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تعریف انگلیسی
adverb
- soft fine feathers
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football “you have four downs to gain ten yards”
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- drink down entirely “He downed three martinis before dinner” “She killed a bottle of brandy that night” “They popped a few beer after work” “Somebody ----s something”
- eat immoderately “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal” “Something ----s somebody” “They down more bread”
- bring down or defeat (an opponent) “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody” “The fighter managed to down his opponent”
- shoot at and force to come down “the enemy landed several of our aircraft” “Somebody ----s something”
- 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” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody” “Something ----s somebody” “Something ----s something” “The fighter managed to down his opponent”
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing “refine one's style of writing” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody” “Something ----s somebodyIII”
- 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”
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place “the down staircase” “the downward course of the stream”
- becoming progressively lower “the down trend in the real estate market”
- being put out by a strikeout “two down in the bottom of the ninth”
- understood perfectly “had his algebra problems down”
- lower than previously “the market is depressed” “prices are down”
- shut “the shades were down”
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently) “we can't work because the computer is down”
- filled with melancholy and despondency “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”
- 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”
- 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”
- paid in cash at time of purchase “put ten dollars down on the necklace”
- from an earlier time “the story was passed down from father to son”
- to a lower intensity “he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black”
- in an inactive or inoperative state “the factory went down during the strike” “the computer went down again”
noun
- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
مترادفها
I. preposition
1. From the top to the bottom of.
2. Along the course of.
II. adverb
1. Downward, in a descending course, from a high to a low position.
2. On the ground, the floor, etc., prostrate.
3. From a thin to a dense state, into a denser consistence.
4. Below the horizon.
5. Into disrepute, into disgrace, into disfavor or disuse.
6. Low, humbled, in distress, in adversity.