How to pronounce “set”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• (transitive) To start (a fire).
• (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• (transitive) To determine or settle.
• (transitive) To adjust.
• (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
• (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• (transitive) To arrange (type).
• (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• (intransitive) To solidify.
• (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
• (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
• To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
• (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
• (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• (intransitive, country dancing) 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.
• To place or fix in a setting.
• To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
• (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
• [Noun]
• A punch for setting nails in wood.
• A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
• Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
• Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
• (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
• A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
• (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
• (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• A young oyster when first attached.
• Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
• (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• The pattern of a tartan, etc.
• The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• The full number of eggs set under a hen.
• (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• A tool for dressing forged iron.
• [Adjective]
• Fixed in position.
• Rigid, solidified.
• Ready, prepared.
• Intent, determined (to do something).
• Prearranged.
• Fixed in one’s opinion.
• (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

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