Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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down | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
low | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
down (noun) | low (noun) |
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(American football) a complete play to advance the football | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving |
soft fine feathers | a low level or position or degree |
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation |
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil |
down (adjective) | low (adjective) |
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being or moving lower in position or less in some value | being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension |
filled with melancholy and despondency | less than normal in degree or intensity or amount |
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency |
becoming progressively lower | of the most contemptible kind |
not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | filled with melancholy and despondency |
lower than previously | subdued or brought low in condition or status |
shut | low or inferior in station or quality |
being put out in a game of baseball | no longer sufficient |
understood perfectly | very low in volume |
unrefined in character |
down (verb) | low (verb) |
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improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | make a low noise, characteristic of bovines |
bring down or defeat (an opponent) | |
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) | low (adverb) |
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spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | in a low position; near the ground |
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 |