different between rundown vs sundown

English

Noun

rundown (plural rundowns)

1. (chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation.

   Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?

2. (gambling) A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.
   • 1946, Lancer (page 15)

     Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]

   • 1960, American Trial Lawyers Association, Convention Proceedings (page 455)

     I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.

3. (baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.

   Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.

4. A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
5. A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.

Translations

Adjective

rundown (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of run-down

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:ramshackle

Translations

References

• “rundown”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• undrown

English

Etymology

sun +? down

Pronunciation

Noun

sundown (countable and uncountable, plural sundowns)

1. (US) Sunset.

2. (countable) A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.

Synonyms

• dusk, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk

Translations

Verb

sundown (third-person singular simple present sundowns, present participle sundowning, simple past and past participle sundowned)

1. (intransitive) to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at nightfall.
   • 2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101

     "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."

Derived terms

• sundowner
• sundowning
• sundown town