Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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down | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ball | Yes | No | Yes | No |
down (noun) | ball (noun) |
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(American football) a complete play to advance the football | a pitch that is not in the strike zone |
soft fine feathers | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs |
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games |
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | a spherical object used as a plaything |
a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | |
a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | |
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | |
a lavish dance requiring formal attire | |
a compact mass | |
an object with a spherical shape |
down (adjective) | ball (adjective) |
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being or moving lower in position or less in some value | |
filled with melancholy and despondency | |
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | |
becoming progressively lower | |
not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | |
lower than previously | |
shut | |
being put out in a game of baseball | |
understood perfectly |
down (verb) | ball (verb) |
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improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | form into a ball by winding or rolling |
bring down or defeat (an opponent) | to live very well |
drink down entirely | |
eat up completely, as with great appetite | |
cause to come or go down | |
shoot at and force to come down |
down (adverb) | ball (adverb) |
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spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | |
away from a more central or a more northerly place | |
paid in cash at time of purchase | |
in an inactive or inoperative state | |
to a lower intensity | |
from an earlier time |