downshift — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A change of direction or a movement downwards.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos

2. A reduction in quality or quantity.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos

3. A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos

4. A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos

   Antônimos

   upshift

   Termos mais gerais

   gear change

   Exemplos

   The driver, Lindsay, gave me a regal wave at the top after he had completed a series of perfect downshifts[.]

Verbo

1. To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • transitivo

   Sinônimos

   attenuate

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (1)

   But in this variation on Superbad's wild night of transgression, downshifting the age of the protagonists from teen to tween actually only enhances the stealth, wide-eyed innocence that secretly drives this genre of pre-college hedonism.

2. To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • transitivo

3. To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • transitivo

   Antônimos

   upshift

   Termos mais gerais

   shift gears

   Exemplos

   He brought the car to a stop before the bridge, downshifted and then put her at the road again in a rising disciplined snarl along the N.6 to Cannes.

4. To function at a lower rate; to slacken.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • intransitivo

5. To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • intransitivo

6. To shift a transmission into a lower gear.

   Uso

   • Canada
   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • intransitivo

   Antônimos

   upshift

   Exemplos

   In a stick-shift vehicle, the driver must downshift when necessary; in an automatic, the transmission downshifts as needed.

Substantivo

1. a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one

   Termos mais gerais

   change

2. a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle

   Termos mais gerais

   change