Talk:Down

Well-defined directions
re the only two well-defined directions." What does this mean?  _Are_ up and down well-defined - or are they just gravity-centric?  What about "away"?  North, etc. seems to be to be pretty well defined.

Dictionary definitions
This is a perfect example of an article that wishes it were a dictionary definition, ignoring the fact that among the things that Wikipedia is not is a dictionary. Now that we have disambiguating parentheses, we have no excuse! Somebody, please help! --Larry Sanger

Care for a dictionary: (or dict:) namespace? --Magnus Manske

Not only are some of these definitions not encyclopedic, rather belonging in a dictionary, but the definition of down as a direction is incorrect. The direction down cannot exist without a reference point. Gravity has nothing to do with it; it just so happens that on Earth we typically define it to be the direction of gravitational force exerted by the Earth on objects. Down can exist in outer space as long as it is defined relatively; for example, you could define it to be the direction in which your legs are pointing (i.e. relative to yourself). Rishodi 01:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Feathers?
what about Cocks? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.29.30.189 (talk) 00:11, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

What about down feathers? I'd say it's worthy of mentioning, perhaps even of its own article.


 * I definitely agree. English is not my native tongue and for example I learned that some sleeping-bags I was interested in are filled with "down", came do wikipedia to learn what is that (I never knew that "down" can be something else than direction opposite of up) and unfortunately this article doesn't mention the feathers. Can you please include it?

Non-feather down
Qiviut is the downy-undercoat of the musk ox; yak wool is the down of the yak, and cashmere is the downy-undercoat of the goat. What exactly does that mean? What's the difference between down hairs and other hairs on these beasts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.164.21.192 (talk) 19:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)