# setting
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛtɪŋ/
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* Rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
* Hyphenation: set‧ting

### Noun

setting (plural settings)
* The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
* The act of setting.
    the setting of the sun
    the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
* A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
* A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
    the volume setting on a television
* The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
* Hunting with a setter.
* Something set in, or inserted.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 28:17:Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
* A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
    Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem
    Bach's setting of the Magnificat
* The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
* The direction of a current of wind.

#### Translations
### Verb

setting
* present participle and gerund of set

#### Derived terms

* bonesetting
* final setting time
* firesetting
* gemsetting
* hooksetting
* imagesetting
* initial setting time
* nonsetting
* pacesetting
* pinsetting
* scenesetting
* settingless
* setting time
* stonesetting
* subsetting
* tasksetting
* thermosetting
* toolsetting
* topsetting
* trendsetting
* undersetting

#### Translations
### Adjective

setting
* That disappears below the horizon.
    the setting sun
** 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.

#### Hyponyms

* record-setting

#### Derived terms

* agenda-setting
* goal setting
* gypsy setting
* jet setting
* jet-setting
* pace-setting
* pin setting
* place setting
* quick-setting
* setting coat
* setting dog
* setting-pole
* setting pole
* setting rule
* stage setting
* table-setting
* table setting
* type-setting

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* testing, tingest

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English setting.

### Noun

setting f or m (definite singular settinga or settingen, indefinite plural settinger, definite plural settingene)
* setting

### References

* “setting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From setja +‎ -ing.

#### Alternative forms

* setjing

#### Noun

setting f (definite singular settinga, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)
* the act of putting, setting (something somewhere)
* the manner of putting, setting (something somewhere)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English setting.

#### Noun

setting m (definite singular settingen, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)
* a setting (frame, background, context, scenario)

### References

* “setting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.