Betekenis van go down In het Nederlands

• 0 to move down to a lower level or place:

  • He went down on his knees and begged for forgiveness.

  • He first went down the mines when he was 17.

  • The plane went down (= fell to the ground because of an accident, bomb, etc.) ten minutes after take-off.

  • Everyone took to the lifeboats when the ship started to go down (= sink).

  • Could I have a glass of water to help these pills go down (= to help me swallow them)?

• 1 to reach or go as far as:

  • Its roots can go down three metres.

  • This path goes down to the river.

  • Go down to (= read as far as) the bottom of the page.

• 2 When the sun goes down, it moves down in the sky until it cannot be seen any more:

  • On summer evenings we would sit on the veranda and watch the sun go down.

• 3 to be reduced in price, value, amount, quality, level, or size:

  • The temperature went down to minus ten last night.

  • The company's shares went down 7p to 53p.

  • The swelling's gone down but there's still a lot of bruising.

  • He went down in my estimation when he started trying to be a singer as well as an actor.

• 4 to be remembered or recorded in a particular way:

  • Hurricane Katrina will go down in the record books as the costliest storm ever faced by insurers.

• 5 to be received in a particular way:

  • The joke didn't go down very well.

• 6 to lose or be defeated:

  • England's unbeaten run of ten games ended last night when they went down 4–2 to France.

  • Dictators rarely go down without a fight.

• 7 If a football team goes down, it drops to a lower division (= group of teams who play each other):

  • At the end of the season, the three teams at the bottom go down.

• 8 to be put in prison:

  • She went down for three years for her part in the robbery.

• 9 If a computer system goes down, it stops working:

  • The battery should prevent the computer system from going down in the event of a power cut.

• 10 If an event such as a crime or a deal goes down, it happens:

  • I tried to tell Tyrell what was going down, but he wouldn't listen.

• 11 If you go down from a college or university, especially Oxford University or Cambridge University, you leave either permanently or on holiday.

• 12 to become less in amount, value, etc.:

  • go down (sth) to sth The company's shares went down 7p to 53p.

• 13 if a computer system goes down, it stops working:

  • The battery should prevent the computer system from going down in the event of a power cut.