Meaning of setdown | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles”

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

“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 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.”

“To see⟳ a family taking deck passage on the boat […] is an interesting spot in the day’s experience⟳, especially when some patronising passenger, accustomed to “natives” in other countries, gets one of the delightful set-downs the Maori can give⟳ so effectively.”

“In Germany and England the tramps usually eat⟳ their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses.”

“They had just finished eating, and I was taken right into the dining room—in itself a most unusual happening, for the tramp who is lucky enough to win⟳ a set-down usually receives it in the kitchen.”

““If we [boys] did get⟳ caught the watchman would take⟳ the wooden end⟳ of his hood, slap our setdowns, then give⟳ us a kick⟳ and say⟳, ‘Get⟳ out!’ […]””

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