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Results for: "down"

Translating from English to Icelandic

Translations:

down — from a high to a low position, downwards
→ niður

More translations:

down
→ dúnn

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (5)

1. soft fine feathers;
[syn: down, down feather]

2. (American football) a complete play to advance the football;
- Example: "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

3. English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896);
[syn: Down, John L. H. Down]

4. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil;

5. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs);
[syn: down, pile]


VERB (6)

1. drink down entirely;
- Example: "He downed three martinis before dinner"
- Example: "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"
- Example: "They popped a few beer after work"
[syn: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill]

2. eat immoderately;
- Example: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
[syn: devour, down, consume, go through]

3. bring down or defeat (an opponent);

4. shoot at and force to come down;
- Example: "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
[syn: down, shoot down, land]

5. cause to come or go down;
- Example: "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"
- Example: "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
[syn: down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down]

6. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;
- Example: "refine one's style of writing"
[syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down]


ADJECTIVE (9)

1. being or moving lower in position or less in some value;
- Example: "lay face down"
- Example: "the moon is down"
- Example: "our team is down by a run"
- Example: "down by a pawn"
- Example: "the stock market is down today"

2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place;
- Example: "the down staircase"
- Example: "the downward course of the stream"
[syn: down(a), downward(a)]

3. becoming progressively lower;
- Example: "the down trend in the real estate market"

4. being put out by a strikeout;
- Example: "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

5. understood perfectly;
- Example: "had his algebra problems down"
[syn: down, down pat(p), mastered]

6. lower than previously;
- Example: "the market is depressed"
- Example: "prices are down"
[syn: depressed, down(p)]

7. shut;
- Example: "the shades were down"

8. not functioning (temporarily or permanently);
- Example: "we can't work because the computer is down"

9. filled with melancholy and despondency ;
- Example: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
- Example: "gloomy predictions"
- Example: "a gloomy silence"
- Example: "took a grim view of the economy"
- Example: "the darkening mood"
- Example: "lonely and blue in a strange city"
- Example: "depressed by the loss of his job"
- Example: "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
- Example: "downcast after his defeat"
- Example: "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
[syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]


ADVERB (6)

1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position;
- Example: "don't fall down"
- Example: "rode the lift up and skied down"
- Example: "prices plunged downward"
[syn: down, downwards, downward, downwardly]

2. away from a more central or a more northerly place;
- Example: "was sent down to work at the regional office"
- Example: "worked down on the farm"
- Example: "came down for the wedding"
- Example: "flew down to Florida"

3. paid in cash at time of purchase;
- Example: "put ten dollars down on the necklace"

4. from an earlier time;
- Example: "the story was passed down from father to son"

5. to a lower intensity;
- Example: "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"

6. in an inactive or inoperative state;
- Example: "the factory went down during the strike"
- Example: "the computer went down again"