SET DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does set down mean? 

• SET DOWN (verb)
  The verb SET DOWN has 6 senses:

1. put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.

2. reach or come to rest

3. put or settle into a position

4. cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place

5. go ashore

6. remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave

  Familiarity information: SET DOWN used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

get down; put down; set down; write down

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:

Reach or come to rest

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

land; set down

Context example:

The plane landed in Istanbul

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put or settle into a position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley

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 4

Meaning:

Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

place down; put down; set down

Context example:

set down your bags here

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 5

Meaning:

Go ashore

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

debark; disembark; set down

Context example:

The passengers disembarked at Southampton

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:

Remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

discharge; drop; drop off; put down; set down; unload

Context example:

drop off the passengers at the hotel

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

 Context examples 

"Thank you very much," said the Scarecrow, when he had been set down on the ground.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

These observations, though they have taken so great a space to be set down in, were yet the work of a few seconds.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Let me set down exactly what occurred.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having made a record of, set down in permanent form, or formally registered to participate in an activity.

(Entered, NCI Thesaurus)

As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In any other circumstances it would have been comical to see his slow advance, hesitating as he set down each foot, but holding his closed right hand in front of him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In trooped the whole family, and everyone was hugged and kissed all over again, and after several vain attempts, the three wanderers were set down to be looked at and exulted over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Accordingly their removal was made together, and Anne was set down at Uppercross Cottage, in the first stage of Lady Russell's journey.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)