put something down for something—
1. appoint a date for smth.:
- Singh pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting Kamran. His trial was put down for a later date.
2. (of smb.’s name) be entered into a list of participants, etc.:
- Lord Linley, sevenyear-old son of Princess Margaret, had had his name put down for Eton.
put something down to something—consider smth. to be the result or consequence of:
- This outbreak was put down to the lack of vaccination and not the lack of vaccine efficiency.
Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase put something down as something—describe or characterize smth. as a particular type of thing:
- Their labors were put down by historians as a calculated effort to police the world.