Square Up vs Go Down - What's the Difference?
Definition as Verb
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- go under
- grow smaller
- be recorded or remembered
- be ingested
- be defeated
- disappear beyond the horizon
- stop operating
Definition as Verb
- make square
- even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- settle conclusively; come to terms
Examples
- "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
- "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
- "Interest in the project waned"
- "She will go down as the first feminist"
- "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"
- "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
- "the sun sets early these days"
- "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
- "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
- "We finally settled the argument"