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PUT DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a record of; set down in permanent form
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)
Domain category:
recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
book (record a charge in a police register)
register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)
film (record in film)
keep; maintain (maintain by writing regular records)
notch (notch a surface to record something)
mark; score (make underscoring marks)
photograph; shoot; snap (record on photographic film)
tape; videotape (record on videotape)
film; shoot; take (make a film or photograph of something)
clock up; log up (record a distance travelled; on planes and cars)
log (enter into a log, as on ships and planes)
document (record in detail)
file; file away (place in a container for keeping records)
chronicle (record in chronological order; make a historical record)
inscribe (write, engrave, or print as a lasting record)
manifest (record in a ship's manifest)
ring up (to perform and record a sale on a cash register)
post (display, as of records in sports games)
accession (make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library)
record; tape (register electronically)
clock in; clock on; punch in (register one's arrival at work)
chalk up; tally (keep score, as in games)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
Synonyms:
get down; put down; set down; write down
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
write (communicate or express by writing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
note; take down (make a written note of)
dash down; dash off (write down hastily)
notate (put into notation, as of music or choreography)
transcribe (write out from speech, notes, etc.)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 3
Meaning:
Put (an animal) to death
Example:
the sick cat had to be put down
Synonyms:
destroy; put down
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
Example:
drop off the passengers at the hotel
Synonyms:
discharge; drop; drop off; put down; set down; unload
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
wharf (discharge at a wharf)
air-drop (drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
Example:
set down your bags here
Synonyms:
place down; put down; set down
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
flump; plank; plonk; plop; plump; plump down; plunk; plunk down (set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Put in a horizontal position
Example:
lay the patient carefully onto the bed
Synonyms:
lay; put down; repose
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Cause:
lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
rail (lay with rails)
lay; blow (lay eggs)
bury; entomb; inhume; inter; lay to rest (place in a grave or tomb)
rebury (bury again)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Also:
put (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
Example:
His critics took him down after the lecture
Synonyms:
degrade; demean; disgrace; put down; take down
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
reduce (lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation)
dehumanise; dehumanize (deprive of human qualities)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
put-down (a crushing remark)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Cause to come to the ground
Example:
the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
Synonyms:
bring down; land; put down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Cause:
land; set down (reach or come to rest)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples:
"They're kind of like tree rings, but they're put down daily," said Florida State University co-author Gregory Erickson.
(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)
She put down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be impartiality—deliberated on the probability of each statement—but with little success.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The jongleur had put down his harp in high dudgeon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“If they put down a guinea on the counter—which they do if they ’ave been drinkin’ very ’eavy—I give them what I think is about a guinea’s worth and take the money.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My father was always saying the inn would be ruined, for people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannized over and put down, and sent shivering to their beds; but I really believe his presence did us good.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But she put down the dish of food and the glass of wine in front of him, and when he smelt the wine, he was unable to resist the temptation, and took a deep draught.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo’s evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo’s throat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I put down my muff on the stile, and went up to the tall steed; I endeavoured to catch the bridle, but it was a spirited thing, and would not let me come near its head; I made effort on effort, though in vain: meantime, I was mortally afraid of its trampling fore-feet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
With nobody present, but our dear and confidential friend Mr. Wickfield, I cannot consent to be put down.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
