set down
See also: setdown
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Verb
set down (third-person singular simple present sets down, present participle setting down, simple past and past participle set down)
- (idiomatic, transitive) To write.
- I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
- Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
- (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- This law we may name eternal, being that order which God […] hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
- (transitive, especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 159:
- They rowed about a League; and then ſet me down on a Strand.
- (aviation, transitive, intransitive) To land.
- The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
- (obsolete, transitive) To humiliate.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XI [Uniform ed., p. 120]:
- "To snub people! to set them down! to be rude to them! to make them feel small! Surely that’s the lifework of a hero?"
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XI [Uniform ed., p. 120]:
Synonyms
- (deposit): drop off
Translations
to place on a surface
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