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Definition: TO SET DOWN |
TO SET DOWN1. (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. |
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, Catastasis ♦ Themis, Thetical. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Perceptor can you find a place to set down for repairs? (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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Expression using "TO SET DOWN": to set down one's staff. Additional references. | |
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| 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 | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | consido, depono. (various references) |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      53 45 54      44 4F 57 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   S E T   D O W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0053 0045 0054      0044 004F 0057 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492533954238495748 |
| 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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