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Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!)
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで!!), also called Gaki no Tsukai, is a Japanese Nippon TV comedy variety show hosted by Downtown since October 3, 1989, known for Batsu punishment games and the New Year's Eve No Laughing series (2003–2020).
Downtown Pittsburgh
Downtown Pittsburgh, the Golden Triangle, is the city's central business district at the three-rivers confluence, now undergoing a $600 million, 10-year revitalization with office-to-housing conversions, a rebuilt Market Square, Arts Landing, and a planned $418 million Loews hotel.
Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, also known as the Seattle Transit Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile bus and light rail tunnel under downtown Seattle, opened in 1990.
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto, the city's central business and cultural district in Ontario, is anchored by the Financial District, Canada's premier center of commerce, and Union Station, the regional transit hub.
Downward continuation
Downward continuation is a geophysical processing technique that projects potential field data, such as gravity or magnetic anomalies, to a level closer to its sources, enhancing shallow features.
Downward gaze deviation
Downward gaze deviation (ICD-11 9C83.12), also called downgaze palsy, is a conjugate downward eye deviation or supranuclear limitation of downward gaze; chronic isolated downgaze palsy with preserved vestibulo-ocular reflex points to progressive supranuclear palsy.
Downwash
Downwash is the downward-deflected flow of air behind a lifting surface such as a wing, produced by wingtip vortices; it reduces the effective angle of attack and adds induced drag.
Downwell (video game)
Downwell is a 2015 vertical action roguelike by Moppin (Ojiro Fumoto), published by Devolver Digital, in which a boy descends a procedurally generated well using Gunboots that shoot downward and slow his fall; released Oct 15, 2015 on iOS and PC, later PS4, Vita, Switch, Android.
Downy mildew
Downy mildew: group of plant diseases caused by obligate oomycete water molds (Peronosporaceae: Bremia, Peronospora, Pseudoperonospora, Plasmopara), not fungi. Angular yellow leaf lesions above, gray-purple downy growth below; cool, wet conditions; needs different fungicides than powdery mildew.
Downy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens), also Pic mineur, the smallest North American woodpecker at about 6.5 inches, distinguished from the similar hairy woodpecker by a bill shorter than the head and black-spotted outer tail feathers; common feeder bird across most of the continent.
Dowoon
Dowoon (도운, Yoon Do-woon), born 1995, is the drummer and youngest member of JYP's band DAY6 and leader of sub-unit DAY6 (Even of Day); debuted 2015 with The Day, solo single Out of the Blue, military band service 2022–2023.
Dowry
Dowry: wealth transfer from a bride's family to the groom or his family at marriage, the reverse of bride price. Rare cross-culturally (3% of Ethnographic Atlas sample), concentrated in South Asia where over 80% of marriages in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan involve it; widely decried for links to violence against women.
Dowry system in India
The dowry system in India, known locally as Dahhej or Jahez, transfers wealth from the bride's family to the groom, illegal since 1961 but widespread.
Dowsing
Dowsing, also called divining or water witching, uses forked sticks, L-rods, or pendulums to find underground water or minerals. Controlled tests show chance-level results; rod movement is the ideomotor effect.
Dowth
Dowth (Dubhadh, "darkness") is a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, one of the three great mounds of Brú na Bóinne with Newgrange and Knowth, aligned on winter solstice sunset, damaged by 1847 digging, with a second tomb found under Dowth Hall in 2017.
Dowty Group
Dowty Group was a British engineering company founded by George Dowty in Cheltenham in 1931, a leading maker of aerospace equipment acquired by TI Group in 1992.
DOx (psychedelics)
The DOx compounds are a family of psychedelic amphetamines, including DOM, DOC, DOB, and DOI, that act mainly as 5-HT2A receptor agonists and have been sold as LSD.
Doxa (doxa dramas)
Doxa Dramas (Δόξα Δράμας), Gymnastikos Syllogos Doxa Dramas, Greek football club founded 1918 in Drama; three Greek Cup finals (1954, 1958, 1959), 21 top-flight seasons, now in Gamma Ethniki Group 1.
Doxacurium
Doxacurium (Nuromax, BW-A938U) is a long-acting nondepolarizing benzylisoquinolinium neuromuscular blocker, ED95 0.025 mg/kg, renal/biliary excretion, FDA-approved 1991, now discontinued.
Doxapram
Doxapram (Dopram) is an intravenous respiratory stimulant, first FDA-approved in 1965, acting on carotid chemoreceptors and medullary centers; used for postanesthesia and drug-induced respiratory depression, COPD hypercapnia, and refractory apnea of prematurity.
Doxastic logic
Doxastic logic is a branch of modal logic that formalizes reasoning about belief, initiated by Jaakko Hintikka in 1962 and distinguished from knowledge by beliefs that can be false.
Doxazosin
Doxazosin (Cardura) is a quinazoline alpha-1 adrenergic blocker for hypertension and BPH symptoms. The ALLHAT trial stopped its hypertension arm in 2000 after doxazosin doubled heart failure risk versus chlorthalidone; it remains a second-line, BPH-focused drug.
Doxbin (darknet)
Doxbin (darknet), also called the Doxbin, is the biggest public doxing website, historically on Tor, hosting over 176,000 doxes with personal data, tied to extortion, swatting, and far-right operators, with mostly denied removal requests.
Doxepin
Doxepin (Sinequan, Silenor) is a tricyclic antidepressant approved in 1969; at 3-6 mg it acts as a selective H1 antagonist for sleep-maintenance insomnia, and at higher doses treats depression and pruritus.
Doxercalciferol
Doxercalciferol (Hectorol) is a synthetic vitamin D2 analog prohormone activated hepatically by CYP27, used to suppress PTH in secondary hyperparathyroidism of stage 3-4 CKD and dialysis patients; US approved 1999, oral and injectable forms.
Doxifluridine
Doxifluridine (5'-DFUR, Furtulon, Ro 21-9738) is an oral fluoropyrimidine prodrug of 5-fluorouracil activated by thymidine phosphorylase; capecitabine is its liver-derived successor prodrug.
Doximity
Doximity is a San Francisco company operating the largest U.S. medical professional network, a HIPAA-compliant platform used by over 80% of American physicians and more than 3 million registered members.
Doxing
Doxing, also spelled doxxing, is the deliberate public release of personal information like addresses and phone numbers to shame or menace someone, a term from 1990s hacker culture.
Doxo
Doxo is a Seattle-based financial technology company, founded in 2008, whose bill-payment platform lists over 115,000 billers; it paid $2.1 million in 2026 to settle FTC allegations.
Doxofylline
Doxofylline, a xanthine bronchodilator introduced in 1987 as a theophylline alternative, treats asthma and COPD with bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory activity, a wider therapeutic window, no plasma monitoring, and weak PDE2A/A2A effects only.