set down | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Towrite.Iset downthis account so others may benefit from my experience.1702–1704,Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, inThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641.[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the[Sheldonian] Theater, published1707,→OCLC:Some rules were to beset downfor the government of the army.; (transitive)Tofix; toestablish; toordain.1594–1597,Richard Hooker, edited byJ[ohn] S[penser],Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie,[…], London:[…]Will[iam]Stansby[for Matthew Lownes], published1611,→OCLC,(please specify the page):This law we may name eternal, being that order which God[…]hathset downwith himself, for himself to do all things by.; (transitive,especiallyBritish)Toplace, especially on thegroundor asurface; toceasecarrying; todeposit; to allow passengers toalight.1726October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Sets out as Captain of a Ship.[…]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London:[…]Benj[amin]Motte,[…],→OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms),page159:They rowed about a League; and thenſet me downon a Strand.; (aviation,ambitransitive)Toland.The bush pilotset downon a sandbar.; (obsolete,transitive)Tohumiliate.1907,E.M. Forster,The Longest Journey, Part I, XI [Uniform ed., p. 120]:"To snub people! tosetthemdown! to be rude to them! to make them feel small! Surely that’s the lifework of a hero?"; (transitive)Toregard(someone) in a particular way; toput down as.Isethimdownas an idiot.

Examples:

EN: Here I put my father in heaven, I have here set down with my heavenly Father, and here I will wait until snow burns, right, Mother?
ES: Aquí me puso mi padre celestial, aquí nos quedamos hasta que arda toda la nieve, ¿verdad,madre?
EN: Well, here we are... set down in the suburbs, untouched.
ES: Bien, aquí estamos... en los suburbios... intacta.
EN: But suppose you had been set down, for a few hours or a few days, among the inhabitants of the moon, and that was all the life you could have forever... you knew no one there, and no one dared to know you?
ES: Pero suponga que la hubiesen dejado durante unas horas... o unos días entre los habitantes de la luna... y ésa era toda la vida que iba a tener. No conocía a nadie ahí. Nadie se atrevía a conocerla.
EN: Nick Bottom, you are set down for... Pyramus.
ES: Tú, Fondón, haces de Píramo.
EN: I was just saying, if you'll just set down the tea, I'll try and drink it.
ES: Digo que si pones el té en la mesa, intentaré beberlo.
EN: If you and vanderbilt ever set down to those millions, there'll be mighty slim pickin's for nick and me.
ES: ¡Presenten bayonetas!
EN: We're all set down here.
ES: Estamos tistos aquí abajo.
EN: It's wherever we set down this town.
ES: -Es donde estableceremos a este pueblo.
EN: Then pretty soon, there's a clear spot in the fog, and I set down right in the middle of it.
ES: Localizo un hueco y tomo tierra.
EN: Then Baron Giichi Tanaka, the Prime Minister, carefully set down Japanese aims in a document called "The Tanaka Memorial."
ES: Entonces, el barón Giichi Tanaka, el primer ministro, puso por escrito los objetivos japoneses en un documento llamado "Informe Tanaka".
EN: The fire in the Stewart Aircraft Works, in which one man was killed, many injured, and half a million dollars worth of damage caused, has been definitely set down to sabotage.
ES: El incendio de la fábrica Stewart, en el que murió un hombre y provocó muchos heridos, además de causar cuantiosos daños, ha sido declarado sabotaje.
EN: All agreed that he had good screen possibilities, and before the plane set down at Santiago, his life story had begun.
ES: Se decidió que tenía madera de actor. Y antes de aterrizar en Santiago su historia había comenzado.
EN: We set down at one table to watch those comedies of lonescu's.
ES: Nos sentamos en una mesa para ver esas comedias de lonescu.
EN: But it's set down in just about the most beautiful country I've ever seen.
ES: Pero esta situada en la mas bella campiña que haya visto nunca.
EN: i'll, uh, i'll set down this cup of coffee.
ES: Iré a pagar el café.

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