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Definitions: Vote Down

Vote Down

Verb

1. Thwart the passage of; "kill a motion".

2. Vote against; "The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Vote Down

Synonyms: defeat (v), kill (v), turn thumbs down (v), vote out (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vote Down

English words defined with "vote down": bog, bog downturn thumbs down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vote down": Fast track authority. (references)

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Modern Translations: Vote Down

Language Translations for "vote down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

hedh poshtë me vota. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏رفض بالتصويت. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, wash out, wave aside), провалям (circumvent, countermine, damn, defeat, kill, pip, shipwreck). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zamítnout (dismiss, overrule, reject, throw out, throw over). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

äänestää kumoon. (various references)

   

French

  

rejeter par vote, répondre de. (various references)

   

German

  

niederstimmen, überstimmen (outvote, overrule, to outvote, to overrule, to vote down). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καταψηφίζω (blackball, kill, vote against). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leszavaz (to kill, to negative, to poll, to throw out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bocciare ai voti. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otevay ownday

   

Portuguese

  

ter mais votos que (outwalk). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cãdea (appear, arrive, climb down, collapse, come down, drop, err, fail, fall, fall through, founder, go under, have a fall, land, pitch, pluck, redound, ruin, sin, sink, slip down, slough away, slough off, strip). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

забаллотировать (blackball, black-ball, outvote, pip). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oboriti glasanjem, nadglasati (outspeak, out-talk, outvoice, outvote, override, overrule). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rechazar (ban, beat back, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, drive back, fend, fend off, fight off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, pass up, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw back, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rösta ner. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oylayarak reddetmek, oylama ile yenmek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

провалити. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vote Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-t-v-w"

-2 letters: wonted, wooden.

-3 letters: devon, doven, endow, noted, odeon, owned, tondo, toned, towed, voted, vowed, wooed, woven.

-4 letters: dent, done, dote, dove, down, enow, newt, node, note, nowt, onto, oven, owed, tend, toed, tone, toon, town, vend, vent, veto, vote, wend, went, wont, wood, wove.

-5 letters: den, dev, dew, doe, don, dot, dow, end, eon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vote Down


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 6F 74 65      44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101111 01110100 01100101 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#111 &#116 &#101 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 006F 0074 0065      0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56818671238818980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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