Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To write. 2 To fix; to establish; to ordain. 3 To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying. 4 (cx obsolete English) To humiliate.
WordNet
v. put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc. [syn: write down, get down, put down]
reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" [syn: land]
put or settle into a position; "The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley"
cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here" [syn: put down, place down]
go ashore; "The passengers disembarked at Southampton" [syn: disembark, debark] [ant: embark]
leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo; [syn: drop, put down, unload, discharge]
Usage examples of "set down".
When they're set down on the counter tops, the platters achieve subcritical mass and begin to heat up!
They too are People of the Book, for they have the truths of their religion set down in writing.
She swigged, set down the bottle, and leaned over to look into his face from a distance of about four inches.
Like most miners, he carried the ship's spin-induced gravity carefully, as if he wasn't sure that anything he set down wouldn't drift off.
He had no intention of following the rules once, long ago, set down by the Marquis of Queensberry.
They set down together in the center of the largest mass of Rast's encircled troops.
He set down the box he had been cradling and knelt to let the black sniff the back of his hand.
As to the stead where he was nourished, though it were far away amongst the woods, it was no such lonely or savage place: besides the castle and the houses of it, there was a merry thorpe in the clearing, the houses whereof were set down by the side of a clear and pleasant little stream.
Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet.
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
You can blow hell out of a planet, but where you goin' to set down?