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say it: set
set is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "put into a certain place or abstract location". It is pronounced /ˈsɛt/ — set. It carries 45 recorded senses.
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
“Get the children ready for school!”
“prepare for war”
“I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill”
insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
(mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
“the set of prime numbers is infinite”
several exercises intended to be done in series
“he did four sets of the incline bench press”
representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
“the sets were meticulously authentic”
an unofficial association of people or groups
“the smart set goes there”
“they were an angry lot”
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
“the set of his mind was obvious”
a unit of play in tennis or squash
“they played two sets of tennis after dinner”
the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
“the hardening of concrete”
“he tested the set of the glue”
evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
(psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
“the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution”
“his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set”
psychology
any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
“the early sets ran on storage batteries”
determined or decided upon as by an authority
“date and place are already determined”
“the dictated terms of surrender”
“the time set for the launching”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for set come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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