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Meaning of downward

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  downward
      adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower
             level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up
             and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: {down},
             {downwards}, {downward}, {downwardly}] [ant: {up},
             {upward}, {upwardly}, {upwards}]
      adj 1: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the
             down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
             [syn: {down(a)}, {downward(a)}]
      2: on or toward a surface regarded as a base; "he lay face
         downward"; "the downward pull of gravity"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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