Crossword clues for downgrade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating. vb. 1 To place lower in position. 2 To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts.
WordNet
n. the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends
v. rate lower; lower in value or esteem [ant: upgrade]
Wikipedia
In computing, downgrading refers to reverting software (or hardware) back to an older version; downgrade is the opposite of upgrade. Often, complex programs may need to be downgraded to remove unused or bugged features, and to increase speed and/or ease of use. The same can occur with machinery.
An example of a downgraded program is Gmax, a downgraded version of 3ds max used by professional computer graphics artists, free to download and simplified for ease of use.
The term "downgrade" became especially popularized during the days of Windows Vista, with users wanting to return to, or downgrade to (with some even calling it an "upgrade") Windows XP due to Vista's performance and familiarity issues.
Another reason, could be that the user's applications do not support on their new OS and they want to revert to an older version.
Usage examples of "downgrade".
Ninth Circuit Court judge whose wife had beaned him with a fishbowl during an argument about his alledged extramarital affair--the assassination protocols had been downgraded.
This directive is exempted from routine downgrading and declassification and shall not be reproduced except by order of the President.
Recently, one analyst had completed a report proving the obvious: because of the amount of profits from trading-which in turn relied on the willingness of others to strike multimillion-dollar transactions on the promise of payment-Enron was uniquely dependent on its credit rating, meaning a downgrade could set off a death spiral.
Had Mackensee blown the ansibles, or had someone else done it, to downgrade Mackensee or simply to get ISC attention?
She believed he should have significantly downgraded her overall score because of her performance on the final test.
Brett headed for the airport in his downgraded new car, tearing the price stickers off as he drove, but the freeway was at a standstill.
It meant that the ship’s own sensors weren’t available to directly monitor the main battlespace over the Channel and the southern counties, but the Admiralty had decided that with the German attack effectively broken, they could afford to downgrade to drone cover only.
Or, even if he does know it consciously, he automatically downgrades her and speaks to me.
Even ignoring the engineering and design gap, every substitution you make of down-time materials downgrades the safety and reliability of the aircraft and probably its payload as well.
Was this part of some new overarching design that downgrades the importance of zoological information altogether?
And of course, such a deviation would have triggered a corresponding downgrading of the reliability of the information by the logic circuits of the probe's own probability monitors.
That such a downgrading had not been registered in the memories was a pretty clear statement to Spock that the probe, at least, was not in error.
The best that occurred to me was a downgrading or a sideways promotion.
Some sort of downgrading is indicated, so I'm going to make you a courier.
Scott,” she finally began, “we will proceed on the assumption that at the end of all this you will still wish to be a part of Starfleet…no matter what your eventual rank downgrading might turn out to be.