Set Down

Definition: Set Down

Set Down

Verb

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

2. Reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul".

3. Put or settle into a position; "The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley".

4. Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here".

5. Go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton".

6. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo;.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Set Down

Attribution

Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.

Belief

View as, consider as, take as, hold as, conceive as, regard as, esteem as, deem as, look upon as, account as, set down as; surmise.

Verb: believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see, realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it; consider, esteem, presume.

Disapprobation

Take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue.

Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look.

Disrespect

Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat.

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.

Lawsuit

Empanel a jury, implead, join issue; close the pleadings; set down for hearing.

Record

Verb: record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory; (remember); commemorate; (celebrate); report; (inform); write, commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum; make a return.

Crosswords: Set Down

The Biblical limitations of Man's wanderings are set down as being the four corners of the Earth. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley)

Alright then let's set down, we'll use the bullhorn. (Day of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero)

Set down John! (Day of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero)

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

They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave. (Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Set down your key and trumpet (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

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

Books

• Albert, King of the Belgians in the Great War: His Military Activities and Experiences Set Down With His Approval (reference)

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

• Set Down Here (reference)

• The rise of Dennis Hathnaught; life of the common people across the ages as set down in the great books of the world (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Leased Bell 206 set down on ice for seal tagging. NOAA Ship SURVEYOR in the distance. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

The Chancellor took it haughtily, drank it off thoughtfully, smiled benevolently on the happy waiter as he set down the empty glass, and began.

The man set down the candlestick upon a small table.

[The bearers set down the coffin] ANNE.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting is currently responsible for this. At present, Satra's role is limited to checking that tariffs remain within regulated price caps set down by the minister. (references)

Economic History

Australia

U.S.-made CPE equipment will not be permitted in Australia without modification to comply with regulations set down by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "set down": set down as ♦ set down for hearing ♦ set down to ♦ To set down ♦ to set down one's staff. Additional references.

Albanian

vë mënjanë (hoard, lay aside, lay by, lay off, move aside, put aside, put by, salt away, save, set apart, set aside, set by), refuzim (denial, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, nay, negative, no, rebuff, refusal, rejection, renouncement, repulse, spurn), qortim (admonition, chiding, correction, exception, objurgation, observation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, rowing, schooling, scolding, snub, talking to, telling off, twit, wigging), mohim i fortë, kundërshtim (censure, challenge, contradiction, contrast, demur, demurrer, deprecation, dispraise, exception, kick, objection, obtestation, opposition, protest, reaction, rebellion, rebuff, rebuttal, recalcitrance, retort, return, Stonewall, stonewalling), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منع من الإشتراك, ‏هبط (come down, decline, descend, dive, fall, slump, subside), ‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, qualify, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, shackle, tie, tie up), ‏سجل (book, calender, cut, enroll, enter, history, list, log, mark, mark down, note, put down, rap, record, register, registry, score, send in, sign on, take notes, tally, transcribe, write down), ‏عزى الى (put down), ‏ألقى (cast, cast down, deliver, dump, fasten, lay down, lot, recite, shift, throw, throw down), ‏دون (below, beneath, inferior, mark, mark down, nick, notch, note, put down, record, stick down, take down, take notes, tally, transcribe, under, write, write down, write out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам на земята, противодействие (counteraction, counterwork, opposition, reaction, resistance), записвам (get down, log, margin, mark down, note, put down, record, register, sign in, sign up, stick down, take down, write down), насрочвам (fix), определям (allot, allow, assign, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, qualify, settle, spot, state), отдавам (attach, devote, give, impute, pay, refer, render, spend), отпор (letdown, rebuff, repulse, resistance, stand), приписвам (accredit, assign, attach, credit, impute, lay, refer), кацвам (alight, land, light, perch, sit), срязване (put down, rake, rebuff, repulse, shear, shearing, squelch), смятам (adjudge, calculate, cipher, consider, count, deem, feel, figure, find, guess, judge, number, opine, reckon, regard, see, take, ween, work), свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, take off, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), скастрям (pull up, trim, wig), скастряне (letdown, put down, rocket, trimming, wigging), стоварвам (bring down on, dump, land, land with, shoot), срязвам (cut, detruncate, rebuff, repulse, scissor, scotch, shear, snub, squelch), отбелязвам (commemorate, make, make notes, margin, notch up, note, notice, observe, plot, put on, record, register, remark, signalize, tag, write down). (various references)

Czech

stanovit (assess, define, determine, fix, lay, lay down, name, ordain, rule, specify, will), složit (close, compose, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, make out, pack, piece together, pile up, put down, put together, tackle, take, take down, throw), vykládat si (yarn), připisovat (arrogate), předepsat (prescribe), odseknutí (quip, retort), napsat (author, chalk up, compose, do, endorse, inscribe, report, write, write down). (various references)

Danish

landing (coming alongside, landfall, landing, making land). (various references)

French

noter, inscrire (send in), déposer, attribuer, atterrissage. (various references)

German

schriftlich niederlegen, zuschreiben (accredit, affiliate, ascribe, attribute, blame, credit, hold against, impute, put down, sign over, to ascribe, to impute, transfer), rüffel (telling off, ticking off), niederlegen (abdicate, cast off, give up, lay down, put down, renounce, resign, touch down, vacate), Landung (debarment, disembarkation, disembarkment, landfall, landing, touchdown), hinsetzen (put down, sit down, to sit down), aussteigen lassen (get off, let off, off-load, put off), absetzen (break off, cancel, deduct, degrade, degradeher, depose, deposit, deprive, discontinue, dismiss, drop, land, let out, move, oust, posit, push off, put down, remove, sell, settlement, stop, unseat, unshoulder, wean). (various references)

Greek 

αφήνω κάτω, τοποθέτηση προσ τα οπίσω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשקע (drown, put in, sink, submerge). (various references)

Hungarian

visszautasítás (decided refusal, denial, disclaimer, no, noes, non-acceptance, rebuff, refusal, reject, rejection, repudiation, smack in the face, snub, spurn, traverse, traversing), elutasítás (condemnation, denial, disallowance, disavowal, dismissal, rebuff, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repulse, set-down, spurn). (various references)

Italian

scaricare (deduct, disburden, discharge, disembogue, dump, empty, exhaust, flow, land, offload, release, relieve, run down, tip, unlade, unload, unloading, unwind, vent), rimbrotto (reproach), prender nota di (record), posare (alight, attitudinize, bottom, grandstand, land, lay, laying, place, pose, put, put aside, put by, put down, put on airs, recline, rest, set, sit, switch off, turn off), far scendere (drop, drop off, lower, move down, put off, send down), atterraggio (landing). (various references)

Manx

skeaylley magh (extend; put down, spread out). (various references)

Pig Latin

etsay ownday

Portuguese

registrar (book, calendar, enrol, enroll, inscribe, label, list, matriculate, prick down, read, record, register, score, signalize, trace, write down), reduzir o capital (write down), escrever (character, compose, create, indite, pen, produce, put, spell, word, write, write down), depositar (consign, deposit, leave, lodge, place, plant, put), aterragem (alighting, landfall, touch-down). (various references)

Romanian

dojanã (admonishment, lash, lecture, lesson, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, snub, taunt, twit), coborâre (declination, descent, dip, down, drop, fall, sinking), argument fãrã replicã. (various references)

Russian 

усесться (find a seat, perch, take a seat), засесть. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spustiti (bring down, drop, fall, hang up, keep down, lay down, lend, let down, lower, put down, turn down), sleteti (fly down, land, run off, touch down), položiti (ground, lay, lay down, pay down, repose), otpor (counteraction, counterwork, impedance, opposition, rebuff, resistance, setdown, stand), odbijanje (denial, disallowance, image degradation, nay, reflection, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repulse, repulsion, reverberation, setdown, snub). (various references)

Spanish

prever (anticipate, call for, envisage, forecast, foreknow, foreknowledge, foresee, foreshadow, previse), poner por escrito (get down, put down, write, write down), poner en el suelo (put down), establecer (base, enter into, erect, establish, establishes, form, found, identify, institute, justify, lay down, locate, nail down, naturalize, put up, raise, set, set up, settle, substantiate, take up), dejar sobre (leave behind, leave over, put aside, put down, put off), dejar bajar, considerar (account, behold, consider, contemplate, deem, define, esteem, judge, look at, look on, look upon, perpend, ponder, reckon, regard, take into account, take into consideration, think, think over, view, weigh), aterrizar (alight, come down, land, touch down), aterrizaje (alighting, landing, touchdown), apuntar (aim, appear, break, enter, get at, get down, jot down, lay, leak, level, log, make a note, Mark, mark down, mark up, note, point, prompt, put down, record, register, remark, score, sight, train, turn up, write down). (various references)

Swedish

släppa av (drop off, let off), skriva upp (chalk up, enter, inscribe, write up), sätta ner (deposit, lower), tillskriva (accredit, apply, ascribe, assign to, attribute, impute). (various references)

Turkish

suçlu durumuna düşürmek, yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, compose, conceive, draw, draw up, enroll, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, pen, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, take down, write, write down, write out), koymak (closure, dot smb. one, lay, lay down, lay on, Park, place, plant, position, put, put down, rest, set, stick, sting), kaydetmek (book, calendar, check in, Chronicle, enlist, enrol, enroll, enter, have smth. taped, inscribe, list, record, register, tape, tape record, transcribe, write down), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), ihanet etmek (betray, cheat, deceive, double cross, give the game away, play false, play smb. false, rat, sell smb. down the river, sell the pass, stab, stab smb. in the back, two time), burnunu sürtmek (deflate, make a dent in, make smb. eat humble pie, put smb.'s nose out of joint, sit, teach smb.'s lesson), belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, peg, seal, set, settle, single out, slate, specify, state), atfetmek (accredit, arrogate, ascribe, attribute, direct, impute, inscribe, refer), alçaltmak (bastardize, belittle, bemean, debase, detract, downgrade, drag down, lift down, lower, reduce, sink). (various references)

Turkmen 

dьюьrmek (help off). (various references)

Ukrainian

класти (lay, lay down, place, put), вважати (account, allot, allow, assume, believe, calculate, conceive, consider, count, deem, opine, posit, rate, repute, suspect, think), висаджувати (bed out, detruck, land), записувати (book, commit to paper, debit, enrol, enroll, mark down, note, notify, pencil, read in, record, take down, write down), давати відсіч (rebuke). (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: endows, snowed, stoned, stowed, wonted.

-2 letters: dents, doest, dotes, downs, dowse, endow, enows, newts, nodes, nosed, noted, notes, nowts, onset, owned, owsen, seton, sonde, sowed, steno, stone, tends, toned, tones, towed, towns, wends, wonts.

-3 letters: dens, dent, dews, does, done, dons, dose, dost, dote, dots, down, dows, ends, enow, eons, nest, nets, news.

+1 letter: downiest, letdowns.

+2 letters: bentwoods, daneworts, dawsonite, downbeats, downstage, downstate, downtimes, knotweeds, meltdowns, pastedown, takedowns, teardowns, undertows, westbound, woodenest, woodnotes.

+3 letters: dawsonites, disownment, downstages, downstater, downstates, downstream, downstroke, downtrends, endowments, pastedowns, wainscoted, wontedness, wyandottes.

+4 letters: cottonweeds, disownments, downshifted, downstaters, downstrokes, downtowners, outwardness, stonewalled, stonewashed, thistledown, wainscotted, wonderments.

+5 letters: disendowment, groundwaters, netherworlds, southernwood, thistledowns, towardliness, undergrowths, untowardness, unwontedness, wontednesses.