down

   1.  adj.  Not  operating.  "The up escalator is down" is considered a
   humorous  thing  to  say  (unless of course you were expecting to use
   it),  and  "The  elevator  is  down" always means "The elevator isn't
   working"  and  never  refers  to  what floor the elevator is on. With
   respect  to  computers, this term has passed into the mainstream; the
   extension  to  other  kinds  of  machine is still confined to techies
   (e.g. boiler mechanics may speak of a boiler being down).

   2. go down vi. To stop functioning; usually said of the {system}. The
   message  from  the {console} that every hacker hates to hear from the
   operator is "System going down in 5 minutes".

   3.  take  down,  bring  down vt. To deactivate purposely, usually for
   repair  work or {PM}. "I'm taking the system down to work on that bug
   in  the  tape  drive." Occasionally one hears the word down by itself
   used as a verb in this vt. sense.

   See {crash}; oppose {up}.

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