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down
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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Not operating. The up escalator is down is considered a humorous thing to
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say (unless of course you were expecting to use it), and The elevator is
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down always means The elevator isn't working and never refers to what floor
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the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this term has passed into the
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mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is still confined to
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techies (e.g. boiler mechanics may speak of a boiler being down). 2. go down
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vi. To stop functioning; usually said of the system. The message from the
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console that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is System going
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down in 5 minutes. 3. take down , bring down vt. To deactivate purposely,
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usually for repair work or PM. I'm taking the system down to work on that
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bug in the tape drive. Occasionally one hears the word down by itself used
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as a verb in this vt. sense. See crash ; oppose up.
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