What is "go down"

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. 2 (context intransitive English) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one. 3 (context intransitive English) To fall (down), fall to the floor. 4 (context computing engineering English) To stop functioning, to go offline. 5 (context intransitive English) To be received or accepted. 6 (context intransitive English) To be recorded or remembered (as).

1. v. move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" [syn: descend, fall, come down] [ant: rise, ascend]

2. go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: sink, settle, go under] [ant: float]

3. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: decline, wane]

4. be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

5. be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"

6. be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

7. disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days" [syn: set, go under] [ant: rise]

8. stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" [syn: crash]