Difference between revisions of "Down"
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| − | You look/sound/seem/are down. (depressed) | + | :You look/sound/seem/are down. (depressed) |
| − | It's down (broken, dysfunctional, off-line, <i>Cf</i>. The lights went out.) | + | :It's down (broken, dysfunctional, off-line, <i>Cf</i>. The lights went out.) |
==idiomatic== | ==idiomatic== | ||
down with = OK with, evolution of "down" from "hip, in, etc." notion of having joined the group, being quite good friends with (down with), etc. | down with = OK with, evolution of "down" from "hip, in, etc." notion of having joined the group, being quite good friends with (down with), etc. | ||
Revision as of 20:23, 10 January 2017
directional preposition
- Turn that music down! (direction in scale)
affix
- downtown, downstairs, downstream, downwind, etc.
perfective particle
- Write that down.
- She practiced her routine until she get it down.
- The car broke down. There was a break-down in negotiations.
- He'd read it down to the footnotes1 = il a tout lu, même les notes de bas de page
1 from "Nobel economist Angus Deaton on a year of political earthquake" (speaking of Obama having read the Case/Deaton study carefully) [1]
adjective
- You look/sound/seem/are down. (depressed)
- It's down (broken, dysfunctional, off-line, Cf. The lights went out.)
idiomatic
down with = OK with, evolution of "down" from "hip, in, etc." notion of having joined the group, being quite good friends with (down with), etc.
