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SET DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
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 "set down" is one way to...):
write (communicate or express by writing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set down"):
transcribe (write out from speech, notes, etc.)
notate (put into notation, as of music or choreography)
dash down; dash off (write down hastily)
note; take down (make a written note of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
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 "set down" is one way to...):
deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set 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 3
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 "set 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 "set 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 4
Meaning:
Put or settle into a position
Example:
The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "set down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Go ashore
Example:
The passengers disembarked at Southampton
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "set down" is one way to...):
land; set down (reach or come to rest)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Reach or come to rest
Example:
The plane landed in Istanbul
Synonyms:
land; set down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "set down" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set down"):
alight; light; perch (to come to rest, settle)
force-land (make a forced landing)
beach (land on a beach)
port (land at or reach a port)
debark; disembark; set down (go ashore)
touch down (come or bring (a plane) to a landing)
undershoot (fall short of (the runway) in a landing)
belly-land (land on the underside without the landing gear)
crash land (make an emergency landing)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to set down
Context examples:
The Lady Loring hath asked me to set down in writing what hath befallen at Twynham, and all that concerns the death of thy ill neighbor the Socman of Minstead.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Messner set down his water-pails.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I set down this remembrance here, because it is an instance to myself of the manner in which I fitted my old books to my altered life, and made stories for myself, out of the streets, and out of men and women; and how some main points in the character I shall unconsciously develop, I suppose, in writing my life, were gradually forming all this while.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If he could anyhow discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare, he determined to make inquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossible to find out the stand and number of the coach.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Wait for his having a living!—ay, we all know how THAT will end:—they will wait a twelvemonth, and finding no good comes of it, will set down upon a curacy of fifty pounds a-year, with the interest of his two thousand pounds, and what little matter Mr. Steele and Mr. Pratt can give her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The ale-drinking, the rude good-fellowship, the heartiness, the laughter at discomforts, the craving to see the fight—all these may be set down as vulgar and trivial by those to whom they are distasteful; but to me, listening to the far-off and uncertain echoes of our distant past, they seem to have been the very bones upon which much that is most solid and virile in this ancient race was moulded.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He was not generally popular among the undergraduates, though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride was really an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
