Set down

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The act of setting down something or someone..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of setting down something or someone.
2. The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).
3. (dated) The humbling of a person by act or words.
4. (dated) A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
5. (slang, obsolete) A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.
6. (US, slang, obsolete) A person’s buttocks.

Example Sentences

setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles

2003, Nancy Kerrigan and Mary Spencer, Artistry on Ice, Champaign IL: Human Kinetics, Chapter 18, p. 141, […] lifts are an equal relationship, with both [figure skating] partners starting the lift, maintaining its position in the air, and executing a smooth setdown.

The [tour] bus brought them to the next setdown point, the gravesites of John and Robert Kennedy.

The platforms [at the rear of the spaceship] will also have legs for landing—designed to cushion the setdown and also to help level off the ship.

The medic would have to hold them on hover and watch the radar for a clear setdown.

You had almost no time, yet you autorotate at barely three hundred feet to make a perfect setdown on this flyspot. That was incredible flying.

Diva fell quietly asleep, and presently there were indications that she would soon be noisily asleep. Miss Mapp hoped that she would begin to snore properly, for that would be a good set-down for Lucia […]

He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! […] I wish you had been there my dear, to have given him one of your set downs.

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• setdowns
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