Soft fine feathers.

synoniem: down feather.

Roget 206: height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness etc. adj.; sublimity.    tallness etc. adj.; stature, procerity^†; prominence etc. 250.    colossus etc. (size) 192; giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.    mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle^†, fell, knap^†; cape; headland, foreland^†; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights etc. (summit) 210; knob, loma^†, pena [U.S.], picacho^†, tump^†; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig^†, tor^†, peak, pike, clough^†; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.    tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola; skyscraper.    pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast.    ceiling etc. (covering) 223.    high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.    altimetry etc. (angel) 244^†; batophobia^†.    satellite, spy-in-the-sky.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 255: smoothness etc. adj.; polish, gloss; lubricity, lubrication.    [smooth materials] down, velvet, velure, silk, satin; velveteen, velour, velours, velumen^†; glass, ice.    slide; bowling green etc. (level) 213; asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags.    [objects used to smooth other objects] roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish, shoe polish.    [art of cutting and polishing gemstones] lapidary.    [person who polishes gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 324: softness, pliableness etc. adj.; flexibility; pliancy, pliability; sequacity^†, malleability; ductility, tractility^†; extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity.    penetrability.    clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding; foam.    mollification; softening etc. v.. ... meer laten zien

Roget 320: levity; lightness etc. adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility.    feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.    leaven, ferment, barm^†, yeast.    lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon.    convection, thermal draft, thermal.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: dons
Pools: puch

American football A complete play to advance the football.

English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896).

synoniem: John L. H. Down.

usually plural A rolling treeless highland with little soil.

Nederlands: veld, heuvel

Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs).

synoniem: pile.

Roget 256: roughness etc. adj.; tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity^†, salebrosity^†, corrugation, nodosity^†; arborescence^† etc. 242; pilosity^†.    brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher^†; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock.    plumage, plumosity^†; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee.    wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus^†, moss, bur; fluff.    knot (convolution) 248.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: baan
Pools: meszek

Drink down entirely:
— He downed three martinis before dinner.

synoniemen: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off.

Eat up completely, as with great appetite:
— Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal.

synoniemen: consume, demolish, devour, go through.

Bring down or defeat (an opponent).

Shoot at and force to come down.

synoniemen: land, shoot down.

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.

synoniemen: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down.

Nederlands: neerslaan

Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.

synoniemen: fine-tune, polish, refine.

Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.

Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place:
— The down staircase.
— The downward course of the stream.

synoniem: downward.

Becoming progressively lower.

Being put out by a strikeout.

Understood perfectly:
— Had his algebra problems down.

synoniemen: down pat, mastered.

Lower than previously:
— Prices are down.

synoniem: depressed.

Shut.

Not functioning (temporarily or permanently).

Filled with melancholy and despondency:
— Downcast after his defeat.
— Feeling discouraged and downhearted.

synoniemen: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.

Pools: posępny, chmurny, ponury

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.

synoniemen: downward, downwardly, downwards.

Away from a more central or a more northerly place.

Paid in cash at time of purchase.

From an earlier time.

To a lower intensity.

In an inactive or inoperative state.