Definition: 1. On or toward a surface regarded as a base. 2. Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place. 3. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
Use 'downward' in a sentence:
1. This marked a 7% increase on the previous year and the reversal of a steady five-year downward trend.
2. To enjoy the magnificence of a mountain, you have to look upwards in most cases. To enjoy Huangshan, however, you've got to look downward.
3. But downward price pressure is no sure thing.
4. The thief tried to burrow a narrow path downward.
5. The reactants are initially pumped vertically downward by the viscose drag force of the high speed rotating disk, and then are deflected to form a flow region that is parallel to the wafer carrier.
6. Soft Starting and Electric Braking of Downward Long Distance Belt Conveyor.
7. Place your palm downward and make an inconspicuous waving gesture, which will produce instant and satisfying results.
8. Silicates such as mineral quartz drifted downward and mixed with denser materials as they reached Earth's core.
9. Experimental investigation of flow characteristics for oil-water emulsions in downward vertical tube.
10. Climatological Calculation of downward atmospheric radiation for China and its characteristic distribution.
11. Analysis of Downward Movement of Gas Lift Hollow Plunger in Oil well Fluid.
12. The price will keep downward continuously for a time.
13. The stems weren't growing upward and the roots weren't growing downward.
14. This can lead us on a downward spiral with more and more plants and animals becoming endangered as well.
15. Place you palm downward and make an inconspicuous waving gesture, which will produce instant and satisfying results.
16. After watching the downward course of the boy a little while, he soon proceeded on his way.
17. How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward!
18. The market generally went downward in various ways.
19. Scheme design of downward signaling system.
20. Practices on equipment downward sliding control technology in high inclined fully mechanized coal mining face.
21. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011.
22. When the young birds grow beautiful feathers, the kingfisher will become even fonder of them and more protective, so it will move its nest further downward, with the result that the young birds are easily taken away by people.
23. Structures can be analyzed in terms of how they deal with downward forces created by gravity.
24. The biggest challenge last year was the increased downward pressure on our economy.
25. Young men's wages (after adjusting for inflation) have been on a downward trajectory since 1970 and fell significantly from 2000 to 2010.
26. Application of downward welding technique to transportation pipe installation.
27. My career seemed to be on a downward trajectory.
28. But daily vertical movements by zooplankton in the ocean—upward by night to seek food, downward by day to escape predators—can also be considered migration.
29. Application of technology of metal pipe full-position downward welding in a construction.
30. You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking yourself a number of questions.
31. This selling adds to the downward pressure in the market.
32. An analysis of the effect of the downward adjustment of interest rate on the economy.
33. the downward trend in gasoline prices.
34. Selection of Braking Alternative for Long Distance and High Power Downward Belt Conveyor.
35. We take the downward direction as positive.
36. I mean, if you want, it's really going downward.
37. He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.
38. Similarly with earnings, young men's wages ( after adjusting for inflation) have been on a downward trajectory since 1970 and fell significantly form 2000 to 2010.
39. The sun, is also variable over a long term: its heat output goes up and down in cycles, the latest trend being downward.
40. These have adapted to the environment by the development of long taproots that penetrate downward until they approach the assured water supply provided by groundwater.
41. He works backward, building a house from the top downward.
42. Downward and upward pressures on a currency are not symmetrical.
43. Prices are tending upward [ downward].
44. To appreciate the magnificence of the mountain, you have to look upward in most cases while to enjoy the fascinating landscape of Huangshan, you've got to look downward.
45. Downward movement is much faster than upward one.
46. One also has to make the assumption that hands were stenciled palm downward—a left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if it were a right hand.
47. If there's downward pressure on costs, because of a need for investment in other areas, I would argue that this is a perfectly feasible solution.
48. She was trapped in a downward spiral of personal unhappiness.
49. It is not unusual for the roots of some desert perennials to extend downward more than ten meters.
50. The downward trend in home ownership is likely to continue.
51. Inflation is moving firmly downward.
52. Benedict pointed downward again with his stick.
53. Because of the great weight pressing down on them, these layers tend to fold downward at weak spots, and this finally causes an actual break in the crust.
54. Irving Fisher also drew on the curve, a production possibility frontier for society, which he made downward-curved.
55. The downward trend went into reverse and the scores started to creep up again.
56. The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.
57. His adult life mirrored the downward course of his father's life.
