setdown

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of setting down something or someone.

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

2. isim The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).

   “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.”

3. isim The humbling of a person by act or words.

   “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 […]”

4. isim A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.

   “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.”

5. isim A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.

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

6. isim A person’s buttocks.

   ““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!’ […]””