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Nouns (30)

n. a groove on a phonograph recording

n. (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

track

n. a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

down

n. (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

down

n. (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

down

n. soft fine feathers

down

n. a computer system failing because of an error in hardware or software

running, track

n. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

track, rail, rails

n. a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

track, cartroad, cart track

n. any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

track, lead, trail

n. evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

course, path, track

n. a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"

track, print, trail

n. the trail of scent left by a fox

circuit, track, racetrack, racecourse, raceway, racing circuit

n. a course over which races are run

Verbs (41)

track

v. make tracks upon

track

v. carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house"

track

v. observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile"

track

v. to observe or follow the course of progress of; keep track of.

down

v. bring down or defeat (an opponent)

down, consume, go through, devour

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

down, land, shoot down

v. shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

down, cut down, knock down, pull down, push down

v. 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"

kill, down, bolt down, toss off, belt down, drink down, pour down

v. drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"

traverse, track, cross, cover, get over, cut through, get across, pass over, cut across

v. travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

tag, chase, track, dog, tail, trail, go after, chase after

v. go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

Adverbs (11)

down, towards the South

adv. away from a more northerly place: "They came down for the wedding"

down, along, right along

adv. in the direction of: "He hit the ball down the line"

down, lower, downward, downwards, to a lower level, to a lower position

adv. "Don't fall down"

Adjectives (24)

down

adj. shut; "the shades were down"

down

adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

down

adj. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"

down, depressed

adj. lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

down, declining

adj. becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"

down, dead, out of service, crashed

adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

down, mastered, down pat

adj. understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"

down, downbound, downward

adj. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"

down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited

adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

Fuzzynyms (166)

depression, impression, imprint

n. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"

step, stair

n. support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; "he paused on the bottom step"

stage

n. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"

stage, microscope stage

n. a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

cue, discriminative stimulus

n. a stimulus that provides information about what to do

circuit, beat, round

n. a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"

center, centre, eye, heart, middle

n. an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"

medium

n. the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium"

center, centre, midpoint

n. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

mark, set

v. establish as the highest level or best performance; "set a record"

sup, dine, host for dinner, give dinner

v. give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends"

sup, dine, eat dinner, have dinner

v. have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant"

swallow, get down, pass through the esophagus

v. pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"

run through, exhaust, wipe out, consume, deplete, run out of, use up, eat into

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

grub, give, feed, give food to

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

feed on, feed upon

v. be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

feast, feed

v. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

binge, stuff, glut, gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, satiate, pig out, scarf out, pok out

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"

guzzle, drink greedily

v. drink greedily or as if with great thirst; "The boys guzzled the cheap vodka"

expend, spend

v. pay out; "spend money"

waste, blow, squander

v. spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

fell, drop, cut down, strike down

v. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"

trip, travel, jaunt, take trips, make a trip, take a trip

v. make a trip for pleasure

tumble, topple

v. fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"

navigate

v. travel by boat propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

negotiate, talk terms, confer on, discuss the terms of

v. discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house"

cut, separate with an instrument

v. separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

travel, journey

v. travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"

follow, go after, come after, travel behind

v. to travel behind, go after, come after; "The ducklings followed their mother around the pond"; "Please follow the guide through the museum"

drag, trail, drop behind, hang back, get behind

v. to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

force out, evict

v. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"

expel, throw out, boot out, kick out, oust, drum out

v. remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"

drive

v. cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"

herd, crowd, crowd together, herd together, drive together

v. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

high, heavy, big, violent

adj. marked by intense physical force: "a big wind"; "a violent squall"; "heavy seas"; "high winds"

tame, tamed

adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"

unhappy, sad

adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

distressed, dysphoric, unhappy

adj. generalized feeling of distress

hopeless

adj. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"

gloomy, dismal, sorry

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

wasted, haggard, drawn, careworn, worn

adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

melancholy, melancholic

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

desperate, forlorn

adj. "a hopeless attempt"

miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

discouraged, demoralized, disheartened

adj. made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"

low

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

irreparable

adj. impossible to repair, rectify, or amend; "irreparable harm"; "an irreparable mistake"; "irreparable damages"

unhappy, saddening, doleful

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

gloomy, funereal, sepulchral

adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"

below, beneath, to a lower place, at a lower place

adv. to a lower place

under, below, further down

adv. "See under for further discussion"

Synonyms (57)

pour, cause to run

v. cause to run; "pour water over the floor"

go along, tag along

v. go along with, often uninvited; "my younger brother often tagged along when I went out with my friends"

turn back, run off, drive off, dispel, chase away, drive away, drive out

v. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

descending

adj. coming down or downward

low

adj. literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow"

debased, devalued, degraded

adj. lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

low-level

adj. not intense; "low-level radiation"

reduced, rock-bottom

adj. well below normal (especially in price)

poor

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

bad, defective

adj. not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"

clean

adj. without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"

complete, consummate

adj. perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance"

errorless

adj. free from error; "an errorless baseball game"

exact, precise

adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"

faultless, impeccable

adj. without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"

unblemished, flawless, unflawed

adj. without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone"

ideal

adj. conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal

idealized

adj. exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence

idyllic

adj. excellent and delightful in all respects; "an idyllic spot for a picnic"

mint

adj. as if new; "in mint condition"

on the button, on the nose

adj. being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button"

perfectible

adj. capable of becoming or being made perfect

pluperfect

adj. more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"

downhill, declivitous, downward-sloping

adj. sloping down rather steeply

degressive

adj. going down by steps

descendant, descendent

adj. going or coming down

amort

adj. utterly cast down

chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated

adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"

long-faced, gloomy, glum

adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

lonely, lonesome

adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"

Antonyms (8)

adj. being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

elated

adj. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"

cheerful

adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"

happy

adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"

happy, euphoric

adj. exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

encouraged, bucked up

adj. inspired with confidence; "felt bucked up by his success"

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