set
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biology
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country-dancing
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hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
manufacturing
masonry
natural-sciences
sports
volleyball
Etymology: From Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).
Cognate with Dutch zetten, German setzen, Danish sætte, Norwegian Bokmål sette, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk setja, Swedish sätta, Faroese seta.
Inflected forms:
form: sets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: setting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: set
pos: verb
tags: past
form: set
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: setten
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: set
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: set
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: set
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: set
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: settest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: set
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: settest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: setteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: set
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: set
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: set
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: set
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: set
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: set
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: setting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: set
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: setten
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: more set
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most set
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To put (something) down, to rest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Set the tray there.
He helped his mother set the table for lunch.
gloss: To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have set my heart on running the marathon.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain.
gloss: To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Lord thy God will set thee on high.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.
Every incident sets him thinking.
gloss: To start (a fire).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to set a coach in the mud
gloss: To determine or settle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to set the rent
gloss: To adjust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
I set the alarm for 6 a.m.
gloss: To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please set the table for our guests.
gloss: To introduce or describe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
gloss: To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He says he will set his next film in France.
Her debut novel is set during the U.S. Civil War.
gloss: To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This crossword was set by Araucaria.
gloss: To prepare (a stage or film set).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fit (someone) up in a situation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To arrange (type).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
gloss: To devise and assign (work) to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
gloss: To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To gel; to solidify.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This glue sets in five minutes.
This jelly sets within a few hours when refrigerated.
gloss: To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to set milk for cheese
gloss: Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.
gloss: To defeat a contract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To begin to move; to go forth.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton
gloss: To produce after pollination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to set seed
Many fruit trees will only flower and set fruit following a cold winter.
gloss: To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.
gloss: To sit (be in a seated position).
pos: verb
tags: Midwestern-US
Southern-US
dialectal
intransitive
examples: He sets in that chair all day.
Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.
gloss: To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
pos: verb
tags: Midwestern-US
Southern-US
dialectal
intransitive
examples: Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket-sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
gloss: To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
pos: verb
gloss: Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The dog sets the bird.
Your dog sets well.
gloss: To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
pos: verb
examples: If he set industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
gloss: To fit music to words.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
That I might sing it (Madam) to a tune:
Giue me a Note, your Ladiship can set
gloss: To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to set pear trees in an orchard
We saw him with eight men setting potatoes within a week of mid-summer.
At Eastertime one year, she helped him to set potatoes.
gloss: To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
pos: verb
gloss: To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
pos: verb
examples: The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
gloss: To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Set to partners! was the next instruction from the caller.
gloss: To place or fix in a setting.
pos: verb
examples: to set a precious stone in a border of metal
to set glass in a sash
And him too rich a jewel to be set / In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.
gloss: To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
pos: verb
examples: to set (that is, to hone) a razor
to set a saw
gloss: To extend and bring into position; to spread.
pos: verb
examples: to set the sails of a ship
gloss: To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
pos: verb
examples: […] I ſhould be very vvilling to be his Clerk; for vvhich you knovv I am qualified, being able to read, and to ſet a Pſalm.
gloss: To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
pos: verb
examples: to set a broken bone
gloss: To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
examples: If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.
gloss: To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
pos: verb
gloss: To wager in gambling; to risk.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.
gloss: To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
pos: verb
examples: High on their heads, with jewels richly set, / Each lady wore a radiant coronet.
pastoral dales thin set with modern farms
gloss: To value; to rate; used with at.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Be you contented, wearing now the garland, / To have a son set your decrees at naught.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
gloss: To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
pos: verb
examples: to set a good example
gloss: To suit; to become.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: It sets him ill.
gloss: To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
pos: verb
examples: To set a hen.
gloss: To arrange the casting of a movie.
pos: verb
examples: Paramont Pictures has set Jennifer Love Hewitt for a movie called Two Can Play This Game.
gloss: Fixed in position.
pos: adj
examples: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
gloss: Rigid, solidified.
pos: adj
gloss: Ready, prepared.
pos: adj
examples: on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!
gloss: Intent, determined (to do something).
pos: adj
examples: set on getting to his destination
And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.
gloss: Prearranged.
pos: adj
examples: a set menu
a set book
The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.
gloss: Fixed in one’s opinion.
pos: adj
examples: I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them.
gloss: Fixed in a certain style.
pos: adj
Derived words: backset
beset
coldset
foreset
forset
forthset
gainset
have one's heart set upon
heatset
inset
level set
misset
nailset
newset
overset
reset
set aback
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil
set about
set adrift
set afire
set after
set against
set ahead
set alight
set-and-forget
set an example
set apart
set aright
set-aside
set aside
set a spell
set a sponge
set at defiance
set a thief to catch a thief
set at naught
set at nought
set back
setbolt
set by
set by the ears
set down
set eyes on
set-fair
set fair
setfast
set fire
set fire by
set fire in
set fire into
set fire of
set fire on
set fire to
set fire unto
set fire upon
set foot
set foot on land
set forth
set forward
set forwards
set free
set in
set in motion
set in stone
set in train
set loose
set mine
set off
set on
set on a pedestal
set one's affairs in order
set one's cap at
set one's face against
set one's hair on fire
set one's hand to
set one's heart on
set one's heart upon
set one's house in order
set one's shoulder to the wheel
set one's sights
set one's sights on
set one's watch back
set one's watch by someone
set on fire
set on foot
set onto
set out
setout
set over
set pen to paper
set phasers to
set pulses racing
set right
set sail
set sails
set sights
set sights on
set someone's teeth on edge
set store by
set straight
settability
settable
set the ball rolling
set the bar
set the cat among the pigeons
set the heather alight
set the heather on fire
set the land
set the pace
set the record straight
set the scene
set the stage
set the table
set the Thames on fire
set the tone
set the wheels in motion
set the world ablaze
set the world afire
set the world aflame
set the world alight
set the world on fire
set the world to rights
set to
set together by the ears
set to music
set to work
set up
set upon
set up to oneself
set with
umbeset
underset
withset
aforeset
all set
close-set
dead set
dead set against
deep-set
go set
hard-set
have one's heart set on
heavyset
heavy-set
mindset
nail set
offset
outset
photoset
preset
quickset
saw set
self-set
setback
set book
set chisel
set for life
sethood
set-in
set in one's ways
setlist
setness
set net
set of one's jaw
set phrase
set point theory
set screw
set shot
set square
set-stitched
setter
set-to
sharp-set
thickset
trendsetter
typeset
unset
upset
well-set
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: връзвам
roman: vrǎzvam
lang: Finnish
word: muodostua
lang: Italian
word: fruttificare
lang: Māori
word: ngakuru
lang: Spanish
word: fructificar