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Definitions: Shoot Down |
Shoot DownVerb1. Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office". 2. Shoot at and force to come down; of aircraft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Shoot DownSynonyms: buck (v), charge (v), down (v), land (v), shoot (v), tear (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shoot Down |
| English words defined with "shoot down": ABM, antiballistic missile ♦ down ♦ grass, gun down ♦ land ♦ on the spot ♦ To pick off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shoot down": DUEL. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But the essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one, if we're to keep pace at all. (Battle of Britain; writing credit: Wilfred Greatorex; James Kennaway) | |
Lyrics | I bet that'll shoot down your plane (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Somewhere in Central Africa. No, children, that is not one of those model planes you made for spotters to practice on, or aerial gunners to shoot down with BBs. This is the African version, complete with flags, of the Royal Air Force consolidated-built Li. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | International travel continued to be difficult as both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance threatened to shoot down any planes that flew without their permission over areas of the country that they controlled. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "shoot down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свалям вражески самолет, застрелвам (blast, plug, pot, shoot, shoot up), повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), изменям (alter, amend, betray, double cross, fail, modulate, mutate, renegade, sophisticate, turn traitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | niederschießen (plummet down, to shoot down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelő (to account for, to earth, to get down, to gun, to rifle, to shoot down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distruggere (abolishes, blast, consume, dash, destroy, exterminate, kill, nip, obliterate, overwhelm, quash, rase, raze, shatter, smash, smash up, tear apart, undo, unmake, wreck), demolire (abate, break down, break up, demolish, disestablish, pull, pull apart, pull down, scrap, shake, take, take down, tear down), abbattere (bowl over, break, break down, cut down, deject, demolish, down, fall, fell, flatten, knock down, lay, lose heart, overthrow, put down, put to sleep, rase, raze, smash down, smash in, throw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "ち落す (to knock down, to lop off, to shoot down), "ち落とす (to knock down, to lop off, to shoot down), 'ち落とす (to knock down, to lop off, to shoot down), 射落とす (to gain, to shoot down, to win). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うちおとす (to knock down, to lop off, to shoot down), いおとす (to gain, to shoot down, to win). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiggey neose (deposit, droop, drop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ootshay ownday derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, put down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild, upset), abater (abased, abate, abater, butcher, deject, depress, discount, dishearten, down, fell, knock down, lay, lower, prostrate, rebate, reduce, retrench, sink, slaughter, tumble down, unman, weaken). (various references) tirar de un tiro, echar abajo (break down, cast down, overthrow, sink, tear down, throw down). (various references) skjuta ner (bring down, push down). (various references) yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), vurup düşürmek (send smb. flying), boşa çıkarmak (baffle, blight, cancel, defeat, disappoint, fail, frustrate, invalidate, prick the bubble, puncture). (various references) atyюmak. (various references) застрелити (gun down, shoot up), перемогти (draw the winner, fight down, get home, knock out, outclass, overcome, pip, prevail, sack, score off, whip, worst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-n-o-o-o-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: sonhood. | |
-3 letters: tondos. | |
-4 letters: dhows, downs, hoods, hoots, nohow, nowts, shoon, shoot, shown, snood, snoot, sooth, stood, swoon, tondo, toons, towns, whoso, wonts, woods, woosh. | |
-5 letters: dhow, dons, dost, doth, dots, down, dows, hods, hons, hood, hoot, host, hots, hows, nods, nosh, nows, nowt, onto, oohs, oots, owns, shod, shoo, shot, show, snot, snow. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-n-o-o-o-s-t-w" | |
+3 letters: southernwood. | |
+4 letters: southernwoods. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 6F 6F 74 44 6F 77 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h o o t   D o w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 006F 006F 0074 0044 006F 0077 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5374818186238818980 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manský, manština, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, Manninish, Manninagh, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man dili, man adası, менський діалект, менський, for manx; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; 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