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the only direction gravity bothers to enforce, and it never asks twice
means In the direction toward the ground, a lower position, or a reduced state — the way things fall, settle, or diminish.
from From Old English 'dūne,' a worn-down form of 'adūne' ("off the hill, downward"), which itself comes from 'of dūne' — literally "from the hill." That 'dūne' is the same word as the soft grassy 'down' (a low hill), still seen in England's South Downs. So the everyday word for falling is, oddly, a leftover from rolling off a slope. The fluffy 'down' on a bird is a separate word entirely, borrowed from Old Norse 'dúnn.'
- goose origin
- Softest feathers grow closest to a bird's skin
- stock market
- Red arrows pointing this way ruin breakfasts globally
- football meaning
- Four chances to move ten yards, no pressure
- linguistic flip
- Same word means both depressed and feather-soft
- quark name
- Physicists literally named a fundamental particle this
down syndrome — genetic condition caused by trisomy 21, affecting approximately 1 in 700 births
down jones industrial — us stock market index of 30 large-cap companies, founded 1896
down under — colloquial name for australia, used since the 1800s due to southern hemisphere location