adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
face
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Place a rubber band over your first and second fingers and hold your right hand facing downwards .
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Dinosaur shoulder blades had concave sockets facing downwards and backwards.
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Then very, very slowly the arms are raised to shoulder level, with the palms facing downwards .
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With corns, the build-up is cone-shaped, with the pointed end - the nucleus - facing downwards .
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The tesserae are facing downwards , the flexible material is uppermost.
move
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She moved downwards to tease his limp pego with her luscious melons, but to no avail.
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They will only be able to move downwards , ultimately ending up in 4a.
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You will notice that your jaw will move downwards .
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An example of this is walking up an escalator at the same speed that the escalator is moving downwards .
point
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With your fingers pointing downwards , gently pull each hand alternately straight up from the floor or table.
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It was pointed downwards , the jaws grinning, the muzzle close to the ground.
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Suddenly he swung up close to my port side, waggling his wings frantically and pointing downwards .
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The fingers and hands should be pointing downwards in this exercise.
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The green copper figurines have one arm waving towards the sky and one pointing downwards .
revise
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They suggest that forecasts of warming may have to revised downwards .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
face down/downwards
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A man lay face down, feet toward the center, head away from it.
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Gently, he brought his face down on to Joe's and kissed him on his lips.
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I set my book face down on the chair and followed after him.
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I was lying face down on the ground.
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Larry Flynt presents the infamous pornographer as a likable slob who faced down the big guys and won.
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On return to Earth the orbiter orients itself so that the underside is facing down and slightly forwards.
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Side by side, the two men lay face down in the grass, feet toward the rear of the pale car.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We came to a path winding downwards through the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And everybody knows from the Depratment of transport downwards that it isn't going to work.
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Dougal forced it downwards , as nearly vertically as he could manage.
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He too felt the spongy soil drawing him downwards .
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The risk is that we carry on drifting downwards because there is no real impact on those expectations.
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The scale on which it registers experience can be adjusted upwards or downwards .
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There were grinning gnomes worked into the iron filigree, running downwards helter-skelter.
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Yellow-brown leaves spun downwards from high branches, and the calm estuary waters could be seen below, from between the trees.
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You have already met an example of this in the heat generated when the iron core of a planet separates downwards .