# setter
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɛt.ə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈset.ə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɛt.ɚ/, [-ɾɚ]
* Rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: set‧ter

### Etymology 1

From Middle English settere, equivalent to set +‎ -er. Compare West Frisian setter, Dutch zetter, German Low German Setter, German Setzer.
The hunting dogs are so named because when they scent the game, they set (that is, strike a certain stance).

#### Noun

setter (plural setters)
* A typesetter.
    Synonym: compositor
    Any query to the setter is required to be addressed as such (e.g., "Setter: Please check"); otherwise it will be treated as a query to the author.
* One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
    The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
    The setter of this crossword has been known to throw us all for a loop occasionally.
** 2000, Rita Wicks-Nelson, Allen C. Israel, Behavior Disorders of Childhood, page 188:In this sample, twenty of the twenty-seven fire setters received a primary or secondary diagnosis of conduct disorder, compared with only eleven of twenty-seven nonsetters.
** 2013 November 26, John Plunkett, “Rev John Graham, aka crossword setter Araucaria, dies aged 92”, in The Guardian‎:One of the most admired and best-known crossword setters in the English language, Graham was known for his idiosyncratic style and extended anagrams.
* Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
    Hyponym: Irish setter
    Coordinate terms: pointer, retriever
    She has a spaniel and a red setter.
** 1931, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims‎:The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
* (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
* (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
    Synonym: mutator
    Coordinate term: getter
* (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
** 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 15 November 2016:It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked [Julien] Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in [Roger] Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses.
* One who hunts victims for sharpers.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:O, 'tis our setter. I know his voice
* One who adapts words to music in composition.
* A shallow seggar for porcelain.
* (UK, slang, obsolete) A shill bidder at an auction.

##### Derived terms

* English setter
* form setter
* Gordon setter
* Irish red and white setter
* Irish setter
* jet-setter
* Laverack setter
* Llewellin setter
* pacesetter
* pinsetter
* red setter
* route setter
* setter-up

##### Related terms

* seater
* sitter

##### Descendants

* → Czech: setr
* → Danish: setter
* → Finnish: setteri
* → French: setter
* → German: Setter
* → Italian: setter
* → Russian: сеттер (setter)
* → Swedish: setter

##### Translations
#### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “setter”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)
* (UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

#### References

* ↑ 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines
* “setter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Street, Tester, Teters, retest, street, tester

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English setter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛ.tɛʁ/ ~ /se.tɛʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

setter m (plural setters)
* setter (dog)

#### Derived terms

* setter irlandais

### Further reading

* “setter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English setter.

### Noun

setter m (invariable)
* setter (dog)

### Further reading

* setter in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

setter
* present of sette

## Swedish
### Noun

setter c
* setter (dog)

#### References

* setter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* setter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* setter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)