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down-prefix
used to indicate decrease.
Those bonds have been down-rated.
down-prefix
used to indicate lower position or direction, literally or figuratively.
The end of the ride was a long coast downhill.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of down- in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of down- in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of down- in a Sentence
I'm kind of a walking photographer, i love exploring new places. One day I was taking a break during an excursion in the Broceliande forest, looking for the best place to settle, when I discovered a small clearing with a tree without leaves. I stayed for hours looking around, taking some pictures and I found Le Coq lying down under the tree. The tree's branches were rising as if to touch the sky.
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.
Military engineers oversaw the building of new Ebola Treatment Units ; military logisticians directed the deployment of life-saving resources from across the globe ; and military doctors supported the brave men and women who treated patients every day, just 10 months since the first U.S. government personnel deployed, we have delivered extraordinary results. Across West Africa 10 months ago, cases are down by 80 percent. In Liberia -- once the heart of the epidemic -- we've helped cut down new cases from more than 30 a day to as few as one or two.
There are two sort of interesting properties about this region, it appears to have a unique contribution to processes that relate to memory, which is that tasks that use autobiographical or self-referential information about ‘me’— past and future— activate this region, but for tasks where you’re doing something you might consider oppositional, not focused on yourself but on external environment, this network gets turned down actively.
Your body produces more melatonin, your natural sleep chemical, when it's nice and dark, if sunlight or other light gets into your brain, that's when [ melatonin levels ] start going down.
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