Downward vs D - What's the difference?
downward | d |
Toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
The fourth letter of the .
D or notch.
cardinal number five hundred (500).
the (path-independent, ) differential of a quantity
voiced alveolar plosive
Image:Latin D.png, Capital and lowercase versions of D , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter D.png, Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur
Image:Uncial d.png, Approximate form of upper case letter D in uncial script that was the source for lower case d
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As an adverb downward
is toward a lower level, whether in physical space, in a hierarchy, or in amount or value.As an adjective downward
is moving or sloping down.As a letter d is
the fourth letter of the.As a numeral d is
cardinal number five hundred (500).As a symbol d is
deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.downward
English
Adverb
(en-adv) (or downwards )- His position in society moved ever downward .
- Their heads they downward bent.
- A ring the county wears, / That downward hath descended in his house, / From son to son, some four or five descents.