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TO SET DOWN

Definition: TO SET DOWN

TO SET DOWN

1. (a) To enter in writing; to register. Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. --Clarendon. (b) To fix; to establish; to ordain. This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. --Hooker. (c) To humiliate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SET DOWN

English words defined with "TO SET DOWN": To put down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO SET DOWN": to ditch. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO SET DOWN": Catastaltic, CatastasisThemis, Thetical. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO SET DOWN

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Perceptor can you find a place to set down for repairs? (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman)

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Commercial Usage: TO SET DOWN

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Books

  • Personal Wisdom: A Place to Set Down What You've Learned in Life (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Familiar Quotations: TO SET DOWN

AuthorQuotation

Johann Kaspar Lavater

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: TO SET DOWN

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power; that the power of a Magistrate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a Father over his children, a Master over his servant, a Husband over his wife, and a Lord over his slave. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: TO SET DOWN

Expression using "TO SET DOWN": to set down one's staff. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO SET DOWN

Language Translations for "TO SET DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

niederstellen, niederschreiben (put down, record, to write down, write down). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vminek tulajdonít vmit (to put down sg to sg), vkit vminek tart, tulajdonít vmit vminek, tart vkit vminek (to reckon sy as sg), írásba foglal (pen, to commit to writing, to couch in writing, to pen, to put down). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etsay ownday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO SET DOWN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consido, depono. (various references)

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Anagrams: TO SET DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-s-t-t-w"

-2 letters: snooted, swooned, swotted, testoon.

-3 letters: endows, nodose, noosed, odeons, snowed, sooted, sotted, stoned, stowed, teston, tondos, tooted, wonted, wooden, wotted.

-4 letters: dents, doest, dotes, downs, dowse, endow, enows, netts, newts, nodes, noose, nosed, noted, notes, nowts, odeon, onset, ottos, owned, owsen, seton, snood, snoot, sonde, sowed, steno, stone, stood, swoon, tends, tents, tondo.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-s-t-t-w"
 

+2 letters: cottonweeds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO SET DOWN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      53 45 54      44 4F 57 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#68 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0045 0054      0044 004F 0057 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492533954238495748

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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