Downcast vs Gloppen - What's the difference?
downcast | gloppen |
(of eyes) Looking downwards.
* Dryden
(of a person) Feeling despondent.
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
(obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
(Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
(computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
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To terrify; astonish; surprise.
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As verbs the difference between downcast and gloppen
is that downcast is to cast or throw up; to turn upward while gloppen is to be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast.As an adjective downcast
is looking downwards.As a noun downcast
is a cast from supertype to subtype.downcast
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
Noun
(en noun)- That downcast of thine eye.
Verb
gloppen
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened ,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified. }}
citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780743283632 , page=59 , passage=A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen'''''. Verb, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. '''''Gloppen ." }}
