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Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, to.
   • Go down to the shops.
   • Her hair came down to her waist.
   • I had to walk down to the ground floor.
2. Ready or willing to (do something specified).
   • Hey, I'm always down to make art together if you want. 2025 June 20, Gooseworx, “Untitled” (13:43 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 5, spoken by Zooble (Ashley Nichols):
   • Are you down to go to the cinema?
3. With no one/nothing remaining but.
   • I'm down to my last few sleeping pills.
4. Within the responsibility or influence of.
   • What type of person you become is down to you.
   • So I guess the cooking is now down to me.
5. Due to; because of.
   • That difficulty is down to significant natural variations in average Antarctic stratospheric springtime ozone levels from year to year 2011 May 16, James Mitchell Crow, “First signs of ozone-hole recovery spotted”, in Nature:
   • The intermittent signal dropout was down to a faulty connection which he'd fixed in seconds. 2005, Stel Pavlou, Decipher:
   • The failure was down to total neglect.
   • It's down to me, the way she talks when she's spoken to / Down to me, the change has come, she's under my thumb. 1966, The Rolling Stones, Under My Thumb:
6. Including even the smallest parts.
   • We checked everything down to the last/smallest detail.

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