downgrade

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
2. isim A downhill gradient on a road or railway.

   “[...] dynamic braking is fitted to the 99-ton, 55 ft.-long locomotives to help control these otherwise vacuum-braked trains on the long, continuous downgrades encountered on the coastal route.”

3. isim A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.

   “Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration”

4. fiil To place lower in position.

   “The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.”

5. fiil To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.

   “More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.”

6. fiil To disparage.

   “We cannot afford to downgrade the lifestyles of other lesbians; we cannot afford to portray lesbians thinly as drunken and bothersome separatists who push their views on "work-within-the-movement" dykes".”

7. fiil to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
8. fiil To revert software back to an older version.