to put down
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5.8
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt daʊn/
- Specialized
:
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- The helicopter was forced to put down in a field due to engine trouble.
Examples
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We're putting down in Goose Bay, Newfoundland.
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I think I know how to put the landing gear down.
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Only three lives were lost in the crash of the Czech airliner when it put down on a lake near the Austrian border.
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Annai blew him a kiss as the ship put down its oars and stroked smartly from the pier.
Fiction book (1994) -
In an emergency landing, the pilot skillfully put down the aircraft on the water without injuries to the passengers.
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After a long and turbulent flight, the captain finally put down the plane safely on the runway.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To come down and rest on a surface
45
3.6
To land on the ground after a flight
15
3.3
Move something or someone from a higher to a lower place, for example land an aircraft
15
4.6
To put a plane or helicopter down quickly in an emergency, often causing damage
9
3.6
To land on the ground or another surface
8
3.5
To bring a plane down safely at an airport
1
9.1
To land a plane on its bottom without using the wheels in an emergency
To make an aircraft land unexpectedly because of engine failure or bad weather
Antonyms
How Forced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of lowering someone (put = place; down = lower/low) gives a clear metaphorical route from the literal constituents to the idiomatic meaning of belittling, so learners who know both words can often infer the general idea. However, the shift from a physical action to a social/ evaluative meaning (criticize or demean) is a metaphorical extension and not strictly compositional or fully predictable, so it is only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Put down Think of a pilot gently lowering a plane or helicopter onto the ground—the pilot puts the aircraft down onto a runway or field. So, the phrase came to mean 'to land' a plane or helicopter.