Difference between descend and down
Definitions
verb
- come as if by falling
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
Examples
The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.
The snow relented and we were back to a rocky descending path.
The investigation revealed that it was likely that the airplane gradually accumulated a thin, rough glaze/mixed ice coverage on the leading edge deicing boot surfaces, possibly with ice ridge formation on the leading edge upper surface, as the airplane descended from 7000 feet mean sea level (msl) to 4000 feet msl in icing conditions, which may have been imperceptible to the pilots.
Definitions
verb
- shoot at and force to come down
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- cause to come or go down
- drink down entirely
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
adverb
- from an earlier time
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- to a lower intensity
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- in an inactive or inoperative state
adjective
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- being put out by a strikeout
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- understood perfectly
- shut
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)
- soft fine feathers
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
Examples
As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
