down

/dɑʊn/

意味: 下へ、意気消沈した

例文: Kai looked down after glitter crash.
　　  カイがラメ事故で落ち込んだ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: down the stairs(階段を下る), down the street(通りを下る), down the hill(丘を下る)

定義: 何かが低い位置にあること、または低い位置に移動することを表します。例えば、階段を下りるときや、何かが落ちるときに使います。また、気分が落ち込んでいるときにも使われます。

downは約1,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: soft fine feathers
Noun: (American football) a complete play to advance the football
Noun: English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
Noun: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
Noun: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
Verb: drink down entirely
Verb: eat immoderately
Verb: bring down or defeat (an opponent)
Verb: shoot at and force to come down
Verb: cause to come or go down
Verb: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
Adjective: being or moving lower in position or less in some value
Adjective: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
Adjective: becoming progressively lower
Adjective: being put out by a strikeout
Adjective: understood perfectly
Adjective: lower than previously
Adjective: shut
Adjective: not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
Adjective: filled with melancholy and despondency
Adverb: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
Adverb: away from a more central or a more northerly place
Adverb: paid in cash at time of purchase
Adverb: from an earlier time
Adverb: to a lower intensity
Adverb: in an inactive or inoperative state

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The cat jumped down from the tall tree.(猫が高い木から飛び降りた。)
Let’s chill down at the park this weekend!(今週末、公園でのんびりしよう！)
The committee decided to bring the proposal down for further review.(委員会は提案をさらなる検討のために持ち帰ることに決めた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: you have four downs to gain ten yards
Verb: He downed three martinis before dinner
Verb: She killed a bottle of brandy that night
Verb: They popped a few beer after work
Verb: Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Verb: the enemy landed several of our aircraft
Verb: The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
Verb: The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
Verb: refine one’s style of writing
Adjective: lay face down
Adjective: the moon is down
Adjective: our team is down by a run
Adjective: down by a pawn
Adjective: the stock market is down today
Adjective: the down staircase
Adjective: the downward course of the stream
Adjective: the down trend in the real estate market
Adjective: two down in the bottom of the ninth
Adjective: had his algebra problems down
Adjective: the market is depressed
Adjective: prices are down
Adjective: the shades were down
Adjective: we can’t work because the computer is down
Adjective: gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
Adjective: gloomy predictions
Adjective: a gloomy silence
Adjective: took a grim view of the economy
Adjective: the darkening mood
Adjective: lonely and blue in a strange city
Adjective: depressed by the loss of his job
Adjective: a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
Adjective: downcast after his defeat
Adjective: feeling discouraged and downhearted
Adverb: don’t fall down
Adverb: rode the lift up and skied down
Adverb: prices plunged downward
Adverb: was sent down to work at the regional office
Adverb: worked down on the farm
Adverb: came down for the wedding
Adverb: flew down to Florida
Adverb: put ten dollars down on the necklace
Adverb: the story was passed down from father to son
Adverb: he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black
Adverb: the factory went down during the strike
Adverb: the computer went down again

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Down, John L. H. Down, belt down, blue, bolt down, consume, cut down, depressed, devour, dispirited, down, down feather, down in the mouth, down pat, downcast, downhearted, downward, downwardly, downwards, drink down, fine-tune, gloomy, go through, grim, kill, knock down, land, low, low-spirited, mastered, pile, polish, pop, pour down, pull down, push down, refine, shoot down, toss off

Antonyms(反意語): up, upward, upwardly, upwards

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): better, drink, eat, feather, get the better of, hair, highland, strike, turn

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): advance, aftershaft, attack, bastard wing, bat, beard, beat, body hair, buffet, build, build up, butt, chop, clout, coat, condition, conquer, contour feather, cowlick, dab, demolish, devour, down, drain the cup, dunk, eat up, educate, emend, enhance, enrich, eyebrow, eyelash, facial hair, fancify, fare, fill up, flight feather, forelock, fructify, garbage down, gluttonize, gobble, guard hair, guggle, gulp, guzzle, hackle, hairdo, help, hew, innings, iron out, jab, knock, lap, lead, lock, lurch, mane, marabou, move, nibble, nose, overrun, peck, perfect, pick at, pitch in, polish, pubic hair, purify, raise, rap, reform, regenerate, relieve, repair, rout, ruff, ruminate, scapular, sclaff, sideswipe, sip, slap, slurp, spur, start, suck, survive, swill, tableland, tap, toss off, trick, turn around, upgrade, upset, wallop, wash down, whip, wolf

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): duck down, educate, goose down, lanugo, overrefine, plumule, submarine, swan’s down

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: devourer, dispiritedness, downer, downheartedness, downy, gloominess, land, low-spiritedness, lowness, pilary, pilous, polish, refinement, refiner

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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Exam Level

中学レベル

英検5級

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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