Put Down

Verb1.put down - cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place; "set down your bags here"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
plonk, plunk down, plump, plump down, plunk, flump, plank, plop - set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
2.put down - put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
rail - lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
lay - lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"
blow - lay eggs; "certain insects are said to blow"
entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest, bury - place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
rebury - bury again; "After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of poison, it was reburied in the same spot"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
3.put down - cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
air travel, air, aviation - travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air"
arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
4.put down - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
dehumanise, dehumanize - deprive of human qualities; "Life in povery has dehumanized them"
5.put down - leave or unload, especially of passengers or cargo;
deliver - bring to a destination, make a delivery; "our local super market delivers"
wharf - discharge at a wharf; "wharf the passengers"
air-drop - drop from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter
6.put down - put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
transcribe - write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"
notate - put into notation, as of music or choreography; "Nowadays, you can notate an entire ballet; in the old days, the steps had to be memorized"
dash down, dash off - write down hastily; "She dashed off a letter to her lawyer"
note, take down - make a written note of; "she noted everything the teacher said that morning"
7.put down - make a record of; set down in permanent form
recording, transcription - the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"
chalk up, tally - keep score, as in games
clock in, clock on, punch in - register one's arrival at work
record, tape - register electronically; "They recorded her singing"
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; "Sally rang up Eve's purchase of tomatoes"
manifest - record in a ship's manifest; "each passenger must be manifested"
inscribe - write, engrave, or print as a lasting record
chronicle - record in chronological order; make a historical record
file away, file - place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please"
document - record in detail; "The parents documented every step of their child's development"
log - enter into a log, as on ships and planes
clock up, log up - record a distance travelled; on planes and cars
film, shoot, take - make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
videotape, tape - record on videotape
photograph, shoot, snap - record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
score, mark - make underscoring marks
notch - notch a surface to record something
maintain, keep - maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"
film - record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
save, preserve - to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
register - record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
book - record a charge in a police register; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man"

 

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