downcast

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.

   “Briefly then heere Dido, with downe caſt phiſnomie, parled.”

2. sıfat Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.

   “VVhere liues all vvoe? conduct him to vs three, / The dovvne-caſt ruines of calamitie.”

3. sıfat Of a thing: directed downwards.
4. sıfat Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.

   “His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.”

5. sıfat Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.
6. isim Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”).

   “a downcast dyke”

7. isim An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.

   “[C]ome lets be ſad my girles, / That dovvne caſt of thine eye Olimpias, / Shovves a faind ſorrovv; […]”

8. isim An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.
9. isim A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.
10. isim A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.
11. isim A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.
12. fiil To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
13. fiil To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).

    “For there shall come a mightier blast, / There shall be a darker day; / And the stars, from heaven down-cast, / Like red leaves be swept away!”

14. fiil To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.).
15. fiil To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.
16. fiil To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.
17. fiil To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).
18. fiil To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also (sometimes reflexive), to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble.