adjective
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Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
example
He spoke with a downward glance.
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Located at a lower level.
adverb
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Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
example
His position in society moved ever downward.
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At a lower level.
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Southward
Examples of downward in a Sentence
His sword slashed downward at her.
The path wound its way downward, dumping them into a draw far enough away to be safe.
The steady downward spiral of snowflakes was mesmerizing, peaceful.
Her eyes were cast downward, and her glass still in place on the table.
From Bagdad downward, the course of the Tigris is peculiarly serpentine and shifting.
He cast his eyes downward, away from the brightness, and saw little except the ground in front of him.
It was built on high ground, and the forest sloped downward and away from the fortress.
It was hard to keep her eyes from drifting downward, to the body that was nothing but muscle under taut bronze skin.
The breadth of this low tract, from Chelsea downward, was from 2 to 3 m.
Dean tried to isolate the sound, looking frantically in all downward directions, trying to see a trace, a telltale puff of smoke in the gathering dusk.
In his mind's eye Dean could picture climbers rappelling downward in great lunges, covering many feet in long swings, reaching the bottom in but a few mad leaps into space.
From Bristol downward the river is one of the most important commercial waterways in England, as giving access to that great port.
As the jar works off, or grows more feeble, by reason of the downward advance of the drill, it is ' tempered ' to the proper strength by letting down the temper-screw to give the jars more play.
As there is no dormer on the roof, the ceilings slant downward on each side.
The primary root is a downward prolongation of the primary axis of the plant.
He continued to hold it but pointed it downward.
Where surface water is banked up against the land, as by the equatorial and Gulf Stream drift currents, it appears to penetrate to very considerable depths; the escaping stream currents are at first of great vertical thickness and part of the water at their sources has a downward movement.
The portal was smaller and dryer than the main mine entrance and seemed to lead downward from this elevated location.
He deposed Galeazzo Visconti on his downward journey, and offered Milan for a sum of money to his son Azzo upon his return.
The squamosals form the posterior outer margin of the orbits and are frequently continued into two lateral downward processes across the temporal fossa.
He sealed his skin around the tube, forced the flow downward, and placed his hands on her, forcing her body to accept his blood.
From a little above the confluence of the Great Zab downward, the banks of the river are absolutely uninhabited, and the river flows through a desert until Tekrit is reached.
Attached to it or the neighbouring frontal is often a supraorbital; infraorbitals occur also, attached to the jugal or downward process of the lacrymal.
The weight required to cause the downward motion is obtained either by means of the material which has to be transported to the bottom of the hill or by water ballast, while to aid and regulate the motion generally steam or electric motors are arranged to act on the main drums, round which the cable is passed with a sufficient number of turns to prevent slipping.
In the working of thick deposits the block of ground between two levels is divided into horizontal sections or floors which are worked either from above downward or from of Thick the bottom upward; in the first case the separate floors are worked by one of the caving systems; in the second, generally with the aid of filling.
He nearly broke both their necks when he slipped on the wet tile floor as he made his way to the receptionist who directed them to a flight of metal stairs that led downward to an empty hall.
The downward pull of gravity suffices to bring about the fall of such material, but the path it will follow and the distance it will travel before coming to rest depend upon the land form.
What is called training is the guiding of the branches of a tree or plant in certain positions which they would not naturally assume, the object being partly to secure their full exposure to light, and partly to regulate the flow and distribution of the sap. To secure the former object, the branches must be so fixed as to shade each other as little as possible; and to realize the second, the branches must have given to them an upward or downward direction, as they may require to be encouraged or repressed.
The realization had not spread downward.
Apply to neck and décolleté using downward strokes.
The ground gave way under her foot, and with a sickening lurch of her heart, she plunged downward.
Jennifer breathed deeply as she looked downward.
She had changed to the white dress, the one she'd worn to dinner that night and the hem touched the tops of her bare feet, which pointed downward.
Now, mostly bound to its banks by ice, the river looked much less menacing as it wound its way downward.
Piles of gear were stacked about while partners called out to those below, fed line and encouragement, while others watched, a number with anxious looks on their reddened faces as they looked downward.
He closed his eyes briefly and began loosening his tight grip on the line, readying himself to rappel downward.
Shipton leaned to his right and began to chip away at a large outcrop of ice directly above Dean, laughing as a loosened piece tumbled downward, striking Dean's exposed head, nearly knocking him senseless.
She raised her glass and bit her lip but didn't cry, then cast her eyes downward.
With one motion he struck downward with his right arm and swung his left elbow with all his might on a level line at the man's jaw.
The edge of the highway to Dean's left, absent any guardrails, was a drop of thousands of feet but the roadway suddenly leveled and then climbed sharply over a rise before continuing downward.
Dean picked up the pace and closed the gap on the yellowshirted rider, low on his bike to minimize the wind resistance as he raced downward at a dangerous speed.
There was anger in her voice, her eyes cast downward "We have to talk," Dean said, taking the only other seat.
Small sailing craft navigate upwards as far as Samarra; above this all navigation is downward, and by raft.
The Trent is navigable from a point near the town downward.
This long downward process being homologous with an almost exactly identical arrangeFIG.
Anciently the country on both sides of the Euphrates was habitable as far as the river Khabur; at the present time it is all desert from Birejik downward, the camping ground of Bedouin Arabs, the great tribe of Anazeh occupying esh-Sham, the right bank, and the Shammar the left bank, Mesopotamia of the Romans, now called elJezireh or the island.
From this point downward, and to some extent above this as far as Samawa, the river forms a succession of reedy lagoons of the most hopeless character, the Paludes Chaldaici of antiquity, el Batihat of the Arabs.
At the present time the river is navigated by sailing craft of some size from Hit downward.
For experiments with long thin rods or wires it has an advantage over the other arrangements in that the position of the poles need not be known with great accuracy, a small upward or downward displacement having little effect upon the magnetometer deflection.
The downward course of the curve is, owing to hysteresis, strikingly different from its upward course, and when the magnetizing force has been reduced to zero, there is still remaining an induction of 7500 units.