DOWNWARDS


Meaning of DOWNWARDS in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

face

Place a rubber band over your first and second fingers and hold your right hand facing downwards .

Dinosaur shoulder blades had concave sockets facing downwards and backwards.

Then very, very slowly the arms are raised to shoulder level, with the palms facing downwards .

With corns, the build-up is cone-shaped, with the pointed end - the nucleus - facing downwards .

The tesserae are facing downwards , the flexible material is uppermost.

move

She moved downwards to tease his limp pego with her luscious melons, but to no avail.

They will only be able to move downwards , ultimately ending up in 4a.

You will notice that your jaw will move downwards .

An example of this is walking up an escalator at the same speed that the escalator is moving downwards .

point

With your fingers pointing downwards , gently pull each hand alternately straight up from the floor or table.

It was pointed downwards , the jaws grinning, the muzzle close to the ground.

Suddenly he swung up close to my port side, waggling his wings frantically and pointing downwards .

The fingers and hands should be pointing downwards in this exercise.

The green copper figurines have one arm waving towards the sky and one pointing downwards .

revise

They suggest that forecasts of warming may have to revised downwards .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

face down/downwards

A man lay face down, feet toward the center, head away from it.

Gently, he brought his face down on to Joe's and kissed him on his lips.

I set my book face down on the chair and followed after him.

I was lying face down on the ground.

Larry Flynt presents the infamous pornographer as a likable slob who faced down the big guys and won.

On return to Earth the orbiter orients itself so that the underside is facing down and slightly forwards.

Side by side, the two men lay face down in the grass, feet toward the rear of the pale car.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

We came to a path winding downwards through the trees.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And everybody knows from the Depratment of transport downwards that it isn't going to work.

Dougal forced it downwards , as nearly vertically as he could manage.

He too felt the spongy soil drawing him downwards .

The risk is that we carry on drifting downwards because there is no real impact on those expectations.

The scale on which it registers experience can be adjusted upwards or downwards .

There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree, running downwards helter-skelter.

Yellow-brown leaves spun downwards from high branches, and the calm estuary waters could be seen below, from between the trees.

You have already met an example of this in the heat generated when the iron core of a planet separates downwards .

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