set

Meaning

1. To put (something) down, to rest.
2. To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
3. To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
4. To start (a fire).
5. To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
6. To determine or settle.
7. To adjust.
8. To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
9. To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
10. To introduce or describe.
11. To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
12. To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
13. To prepare (a stage or film set).
14. To fit (someone) up in a situation.
15. To arrange (type).
16. To devise and assign (work) to.
17. To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
18. To solidify.
19. To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
20. Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
21. To defeat a contract.
22. (obsolete) To begin to move; to go forth.
23. To produce after pollination.
24. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
25. To sit (be in a seated position).
26. To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
27. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
28. Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
29. To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
30. To fit music to words.
31. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
32. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
33. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
34. 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.
35. To place or fix in a setting.
36. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
37. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
38. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
39. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
40. To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
41. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
42. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
43. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
44. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
45. To suit; to become.
46. To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.

put

place

of the sun

tie on

pose a question

stage set

hang

designate

complete set

prepare for

exercise set

put in order

set cock

make use of

modification

permanent deformation

put on clothes

put onto

radio set

result in

stick to the pan

trim down

turn to account

to put

agree on

anulus

busy oneself

light rain

make stand

pass oneself off

become firm

stage setting

stage scenery

abjustment

einstellung

permanent change

be set

placed Planted

defervesce

discussion section

ebb off

ebb out

fancify

receiving system

social group

unexceeded

residual deformation

permanent set

broad variety

commutating tooth

partial order

skimming coat

plank game

dinnerware set

partial ordering relation

permanent distortion

set yielding

set deformation

model, to

place deposit

accommodate to

be about

be about to

cause to take place

crockery set

enter upon

exculsive circle

flow into

gadget

get dark

harding

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛt/

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”).

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