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Grammar : Verb
Spell : set
Phonetic Transcription : sɛt



Definition of set down

Origin :
  • Old English settan (transitive) "cause to sit, put in some place, fix firmly; build, found; appoint, assign," from Proto-Germanic *(bi)satjan "to cause to sit, set" (cf. Old Norse setja, Swedish sätta, Old Saxon settian, Old Frisian setta, Dutch zetten, German setzen, Gothic satjan), causative form of PIE *sod-, variant of *sed- "to sit" (see sit (v.)). Also cf. set (n.2).
  • Intransitive sense from c.1200, "be seated." Used in many disparate senses by Middle English; sense of "make or cause to do, act, or be; start" and that of "mount a gemstone" attested by mid-13c. Confused with sit since early 14c. Of the sun, moon, etc., "to go down," recorded from c.1300, perhaps from similar use of the cognates in Scandinavian languages. To set (something) on "incite to attack" (c.1300) originally was in reference to hounds and game.
  • As in land : verb arrive, come to rest on
  • As in lay : verb put, place
  • As in light : verb step down; land
  • As in list : verb keep a record; tabulate
  • As in lower : verb let down; fall
  • As in ascribe : verb assign to source
  • As in note : verb observe, perceive
  • As in perch : verb sit atop of
  • As in put down : verb write into record
  • As in record : verb write down; store information
  • As in register : verb enter in list, record
  • As in settle : verb come to rest; fall
  • As in take down : verb write down
  • As in write : verb put language down on paper
  • As in chronicle : verb report, recount
  • As in consider : verb regard a certain way
  • As in drop off : verb deliver
  • As in enter : verb record, list
  • As in establish : verb set up, organize
  • As in formulate : verb plan, specify systematically
Example sentences :
  • She rose as she spoke, to set down her coffee-cup on the table.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Jacob set down his milk pail, and followed her into the Veaseys' kitchen.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • I set down in my clock-room, about three in the arternoon, an' there I set.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Well, I'd let him set down a spell in Solomon's temple an' look round him.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • An' then she set down in a chair, an' fanned herself with a newspaper.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Whatever was set down on either side of the page, Amelia did not care.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • "Well, I guess 'twon't pay me to set down ag'in," she announced.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Since he had been set down there his eyes had not strayed from the statue of the Virgin.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • You can set down Mr. Melville's name with perfect confidence.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
  • Tobe set down the pitcher as gingerly as if it had been a soap-bubble.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various

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