Dictionary entry details
• PUT DOWN (verb)
Meaning:
Cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
put down; place down; set down
Context example:
set down your bags here
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
flump; plank; plonk; plop; plump; plump down; plunk; plunk down (set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Put in a horizontal position
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
lay; put down; repose
Context examples:
lay the books on the table / lay the patient carefully onto the bed
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Cause:
lie (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
rebury (bury again)
bury; entomb; inhume; inter; lay to rest (place in a grave or tomb)
blow; lay (lay eggs)
rail (lay with rails)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Also:
put (put into a certain place or abstract location)
Meaning:
Cause to come to the ground
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
land; put down; bring down
Context example:
the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Cause:
land; set down (reach or come to rest)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
demean; degrade; disgrace; take down; put down
Context examples:
She tends to put down younger women colleagues / His critics took him down after the lecture
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
reduce (lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation)
dehumanise; dehumanize (deprive of human qualities)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
unload; drop off; put down; set down; drop; discharge
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
wharf (discharge at a wharf)
air-drop (drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
write down; set down; put down; get down
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
write (communicate or express by writing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
note; take down (make a written note of)
dash down; dash off (write down hastily)
notate (put into notation, as of music or choreography)
transcribe (write out from speech, notes, etc.)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Make a record of; set down in permanent form
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
record; enter; put down
Hypernyms (to "put down" is one way to...):
preserve; save (to keep up and reserve for personal or special use)
Domain category:
recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "put down"):
chalk up; tally (keep score, as in games)
film; shoot; take (make a film or photograph of something)
tape; videotape (record on videotape)
photograph; shoot; snap (record on photographic film)
mark; score (make underscoring marks)
notch (notch a surface to record something)
keep; maintain (maintain by writing regular records)
film (record in film)
register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)
book (record a charge in a police register)
clock up; log up (record a distance travelled; on planes and cars)
log (enter into a log, as on ships and planes)
document (record in detail)
clock in; clock on; punch in (register one's arrival at work)
record; tape (register electronically)
accession (make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library)
post (display, as of records in sports games)
ring up (to perform and record a sale on a cash register)
manifest (record in a ship's manifest)
inscribe (write, engrave, or print as a lasting record)
chronicle (record in chronological order; make a historical record)
file; file away (place in a container for keeping records)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
