(baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
(colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
(informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
(normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
(not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
(not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
(not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
(obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
(of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
At a lower level than before.
Facing downwards.
Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
Having a lower score than an opponent.
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
adv
(UK, academia, dated) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
(comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
(rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
(sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
(sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
As a down payment.
At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
Away from the city (regardless of direction).
Forward, straight ahead.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
From less to greater detail.
Into a state of non-operation.
On paper (or in a durable record).
So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
noun
(American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
(UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
(botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
(crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
(dated) A grudge (on someone).
(especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
(usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
A downstairs room of a two-story house.
A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
Down payment.
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
prep
(colloquial) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
From north to south of.
From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
(intransitive, rare or obsolete) To go or come down; to descend.
(transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
(transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
(transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
(transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
(transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
(transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
(transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
enow
enow
adv
(archaic) Just now.
(archaic, Scotland) Soon.
det
Archaic form of enough.
gnow
gown
gown
noun
(by metonymy) The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace.
A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
A loose, flowing upper garment.
A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
Any sort of dress or garb.
The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
The robe worn by a surgeon.
verb
To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
know
know
noun
(rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.
Knowledge; the state of knowing; now confined to the fixed phrase ‘in the know’
verb
(intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
(intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
(transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
(transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
(transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
(transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
(transitive) To experience.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
(transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
(transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know Biblically.’
To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
(figurative, Scotland and Northern England) A dumb, crass, or clumsy person, or a person who is difficult or stubborn.
pron
(Northern England) Naught, nothing.
nowy
nowy
adj
(heraldry) Nowed (knotted).
owen
owen
Proper noun
name of origin, possibly derived from Eugene, cognate to Gaelic Eòghan.
derived from the given name.
from the Gaelic Mac Eoghain.
A town in South Australia
A town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
A town in Indiana
A city in Wisconsin
owhn
owns
owns
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of own
snow
snow
noun
(countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
(nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
(uncountable) A shade of the color white.
(uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
(uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
(uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
(uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
marine snow
verb
(colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
(impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
(poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.
sown
sown
noun
(especially historiography) Cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to the nomad pastoralists of the steppe or desert.
verb
past participle of sow
town
town
noun
(England, traditional, also Town, in phrases such as 'in town' or 'to town') London, especially central London.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
(UK, historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
(colloquial) Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.
(law) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
(obsolete) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which constituted the domain.
A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)
Any more urbanized centre than the place of reference.
The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
whon
wino
wino
noun
(derogatory) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
(informal) A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.
(physics) A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.
woan
wone
wone
noun
(obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
Custom, habit, practice.
verb
(obsolete or archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.
wong
wong
noun
(obsolete, except in placenames) A field or other piece of land.
In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.
verb
(gambling) To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
wonk
wonk
noun
(by extension, informal) A policy wonk or other intellectual expert.
(derogatory, informal) An overly studious person, particularly student.
wons
wons
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of won
wont
wont
adj
Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
noun
(archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
verb
(intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
(transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.