Definition of "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: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

verb: bring down or defeat (an opponent)

verb: eat up completely, as with great appetite

"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal."

verb: drink down entirely

"He downed three martinis before dinner."

verb: cause to come or go down

"The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect."

verb: shoot at and force to come down

adjective: filled with melancholy and despondency

"Downcast after his defeat."

adjective: not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

"We can't work because the computer is down."

adjective: shut

"The shades were down."

adjective: lower than previously

"Prices are down."

adjective: understood perfectly

"Had his algebra problems down."

adjective: being put out by a strikeout

"Two down in the bottom of the ninth."

adjective: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

"The down staircase."

adjective: becoming progressively lower

"The down trend in the real estate market."

adjective: being or moving lower in position or less in some value

"Lay face down."

adverb: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

"Don't fall down."

adverb: away from a more central or a more northerly place

"Was sent down to work at the regional office."

adverb: paid in cash at time of purchase

"Put ten dollars down on the necklace."

adverb: in an inactive or inoperative state

"The factory went down during the strike."

adverb: to a lower intensity

"He slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black."

adverb: from an earlier time

"The story was passed down from father to son."