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Definition: Downer |
DownerNoun1. A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "downer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
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Agriculture | Commonly used term for animals that are disabled due to illness or injury. A longstanding issue is whether these animals are treated humanely or inhumanely by shippers, stockyards, and packers while they are being moved or held for slaughter. Legislation periodically introduced in Congress would outlaw the sale or transfer of such animals, but livestock producer groups (who generally agree that livestock markets should not accept severely disabled animals) contend that their voluntary efforts to end harmful practices have already proven successful. (or downed animals). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DownerSynonyms: depressant (n), sedative (n), sedative drug (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What you need is grass or a downer or something (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; writing credit: Roger Ebert; Russ Meyer) If I'm not mistaken, you've come back here to the house of loneliness and tears, to Daddy Downer and Brother Bummer, to come to some sort of decision about life, a life decision if you will (Beautiful Girls; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) Now, kids, you may think that God is a downer. But, he's an upper (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Football Toucher Downer (1937) | |
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| "Poles in the field at sunset" by Karoly Feher Commentary: "We are downer than the sea limit in Amsterdam suburb. Pink and blue 5 o clock." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Health | This fact sheet was also reviewed by Thomas Wadden, Ph.D., Director, Weight and Eating Disorders Program, University of Pennsylvania, and Goulda Downer, Ph.D., President, Metroplex Health and Nutrition Services. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Downer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 45.71% of the time. "Downer" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 45.71% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 28.57% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 25.71% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "downer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Downer | Last name | 2,000 | 6,765 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Australia | Downer Group Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Downer, MN |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "downer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | sedativum (depressant, tranquillizer). (various references) | |
Dutch | downer, goofballs. (various references) | |
French | downer. (various references) | |
German | Downer, Beruhigungsmittel (bromide, depressant, depressants, placebos, sedation, sedative, sedatives, suppressant, suppressants, tranquilizer, tranquillizer, tranquillizers). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rossz drogélmény, nyugtatószer (sedative, tranquilizer, tranquillizer), nyomasztó közérzet, leverő közérzet. (various references) | |
Italian | calmante (anodyne, appeasing, calmative, calming, sedative, soothing, tranquilizer, tranquillizer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ownerday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | drunfo (barbiturate). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatıştırıcı madde (depressant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "downer": downers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "downer": landowner, nonlandowner, sundowner. (additional references) | |
Words containing "downer": landowners, landownership, landownerships, nonlandowners, sundowners. (additional references) | |
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"Downer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dehner, Doebner, Donar, doner, donir, donner, donnery, Dorner, dowen, dowler, downes, downor, drobner, lowner, townser. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "downer" (pronounced dou"ner) |
| 3 | -ou" n er | browner, crowner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wonder. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: dower, drone, drown, endow, owned, owner, redon, rewon, rowed, rowen. | |
-2 letters: doer, done, dore, down, drew, enow, nerd, node, owed, redo, rend, rode, wend, word, wore, worn, wren. | |
-3 letters: den, dew, doe, don, dor, dow, end, eon, ern, new, nod, nor, now, ode, one, ore, owe, own, red, rod, roe, row, wed, wen. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: browned, crowned, decrown, downers, downier, drowned, drowner, endower, frowned, reendow, rewound, wonders, wronged. | |
+2 letters: danewort, decrowns, dowering, drownded, drowners, endowers, ironweed, narrowed, overwind, rawboned, reendows, renowned, swordmen, teardown, undertow, unworked, wanderoo, wondered, wonderer, woodener, worsened. | |
+3 letters: breakdown, cornrowed, daneworts, decrowned, deworming, downgrade, downrange, downriver, downtrend, eiderdown, embrowned, greenwood, gunpowder, handwrote, imbrowned, ironweeds, landowner, lowlander, networked, overdrawn, overwinds, overwound, powdering, recrowned, reendowed, rewording, rosinweed, rowdiness, sundowner, swordsmen, teardowns, uncrowded, uncrowned, underflow, undertows, underwood, underwool, unworried, wanderoos, windhover, windrowed, wonderers, wonderful, wondering, wordiness, wrongdoer. | |
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