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The car was going down--down--down, and there he was, perhaps hundreds of feet above any one else in the building--alone, tricked, beaten Of course he tried the door at the head of the winding stairway, knowing full well that it would be locked.

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  1. adverb From a higher to a lower place or position: hiked down from the peak.
  2. adverb Toward, to, or on the ground, floor, or bottom: tripped and fell down.
  3. adverb In or into a sitting, kneeling, or reclining position: knelt down; lying down.
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  • Further down were the Maelstrom and the land of the Gegs. —  Death Gate Cycle 1 - Dragon Wing
  • Further down is a PDF of Summers 'Personal Financial Disclosure form, released on late Friday afternoon. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The segment normally farther down is then attached directly to the stomach, where it receives all the nutrients coming in. —  Diabetes News from dLife.com
  • Further down is a small Bunun food stand, an Aboriginal handicraft store that offers do-it-yourself courses, a shop selling "sparkling millet wine," a shop offering organic vegetables and fruit grown by Aborigines, and high-mountain tea from Alishan (阿里山). —  Taipei Times
  • Further down is the chatterbox in Apt 28 who always has her door open and jumps out and distracts you, just as you're trying to get somewhere. —  doggdot.us
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  1. Middle English doun, from Old English -dūne (as in ofdūne, downwards), from dūne, dative of dūn, hill; see dheuə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English doun, from Old Norse dūnn.
  3. Middle English doune, from Old English dūn, hill; see dheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also downe, doune; from Middle English down, doun, earlier dune, dun, a hill, from Anglo-Saxon dūn, a hill, = Old High German dūn, a promontory, = Swedish dial. dun, a hill; in the other Teutonic languages confined to a special sense: = OFries. dūne, NFries. düne = Middle Dutch duvne, Dutch duin = Middle Low German dune, Low German düne (later G. düne = English dune, dial. dene = French dune = Italian Spanish Portuguese duna), a sand-hill, a sand-bank, a shifting ridge of sand (see dune); prob. of Celtic origin, from Irish dūn, a hill, mount, fort, = Welsh din, a hill-fort (OCelt. *dūn, in Latinized place-names, as Lugdunum, Lyons, Augustodunum, etc), = Old High German Middle High German zūn, German zaun = Old Saxon tūn = Anglo-Saxon tūn = Icelandic tūn, an inclosed place, an inclosure, a town (see town, which is thus cognate with down); perhaps = Greek θίς (θῖν-), a heap, a heap of sand, the beach or sea-shore, = Sanskrit dhanus, a sand-bank, dhanvan, beach, shore. Hence down, adverb, prep., and v.
  2. Early modern English also downe, doune; from Middle English down, doun, doune, earlier dune, dun, down, abbreviation of adune, adun, English adown, from Anglo-Saxon ādūn, ādūne, also of-dūne, adverb, down, orig. of dūne, i. e., from (the) hill: of, off, from; dūne, dative of dūn, a hill: see down, n. Cf. adown, adv., of which down is an aphetic form.
  3. Early modern English also downe, doune; from down, adv. Cf. adown, prep., of which down is an aphetic form. The prepositional use of the aphetic form does not appear in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon
  4. from down, adv.
  5. Early modern English also downe, doune; from Middle English down, downe, doun = Middle Low German dūne, Low German dune (later G. daune), feminine (perhaps of Scandinavian origin), = Icelandic dūnn, masculine, = Swedish Danish dun, down. Prob. not connected with Middle Dutch donse, donst, down, flock, pollen, Dutch dons, down: see dust.
 

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