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• enPR: sĕt, МФА^(кључ): /sɛt/

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• Homophone: sett
• Риме: -ɛt

From Средњи Енглески setten, from Стари Енглески settan, from Пра-Западно Германски *sattjan, from Пра-Германски *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).

set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past set, past participle set or (dialectal) setten)

1. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.

   Синоними: put, lay, set down

   Антоним: pick up

   Set the tray there.

2. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.

   I have set my heart on running the marathon.

   • Шаблон:RQ:KJV
3. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
   • Шаблон:RQ:KJV
   • Шаблон:RQ:KJV
   • 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hamlet:

     Every incident sets him thinking.

4. (transitive) To start (a fire).

   Синоним: light

   Антоними: extinguish, put out, quench

5. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

   to set a coach in the mud

7. (transitive) To determine or settle.

   to set the rent

8. (transitive) To adjust.

   I set the alarm at 6 a.m.

   (i.e. I programmed it at that hour to go off at a later time)

   I set the alarm for 6 a.m.

   (i.e. I programmed it earlier to go off at that hour.)

9. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
10. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.

    Please set the table for our guests.

11. (transitive) To introduce or describe.

    I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.

    • Шаблон:RQ:Fielding Tom Jones
12. (transitive) simple past and past [[Додатак:Речник#participle|participle]] of set To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.

    He says he will set his next film in France.

    Her debut novel is set during the U.S. Civil War.

13. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).

    This crossword was set by Araucaria.

14. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
15. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
16. (transitive) To arrange (type).

    It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.

17. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.

    The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.

18. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
19. (intransitive) To solidify.

    The glue sets in five minutes.

20. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.

    to set milk for cheese

21. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.

    The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.

22. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
23. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
24. (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.

    to set seed

    • 2012, Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows, page 155:

      Many fruit trees will only flower and set fruit following a cold winter.

25. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
    • 1906, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report:

      In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.

26. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).

    He sets in that chair all day.

    • Шаблон:RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients
    • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 227:

      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.

27. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
    • 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

      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.

28. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
29. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.

    The dog sets the bird.

    Your dog sets well.

30. To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Hammond Of Fundamentals
31. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Dryden Mac Flecknoe
    • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona
32. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

    to set pear trees in an orchard

    • 1774, John Robinson, Thomas Rispin, A Journey Through Nova-Scotia Containing a Particular Account of the Country and its Inhabitants, York: C. Etherington, page 19:

      Mr. Forster, from Newcastle, made a purchase here last year. We saw him with eight men setting potatoes within a week of mid-summer.

33. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
34. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.

    The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.

35. (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.

    Set to partners! was the next instruction from the caller.

36. To place or fix in a setting.

    to set a precious stone in a border of metal

    to set glass in a sash

    • Шаблон:RQ:Dryden Spanish Fryar
37. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.

    to set (that is, to hone) a razor

    to set a saw

38. To extend and bring into position; to spread.

    to set the sails of a ship

39. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Fielding Joseph Andrews
40. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.

    to set a broken bone

41. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
42. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3
43. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Dryden Fables
    • 1815, William Wordsworth, Poems of the Imagination:

      pastoral dales thin set with modern farms

44. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

      I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

45. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.

    to set a good example

46. (Scotland) To suit; to become.

    It sets him ill.

47. To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.

    To set a hen.

• (of heavenly bodies, to disappear below the horizon): go down, go west

• → Јапански: セット (setto)

From Средњи Енглески set, sette, from Стари Енглески set (“seat, place of residence, camp, settlement, entrenchment, stable, pen”), from Пра-Западно Германски *set (“seat”), from Пра-Германски *setą (“seat”).

 

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set (plural sets)

1. A punch for setting nails in wood.

   nail set

2. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.

   television set

3. Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”)
4. Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”)
5. Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”)
6. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
7. The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
8. (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.

   the set of a spring

   • 1986 март 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, in Aircraft Accident Report: China Airlines Boeing 747-SP, N4522V, 300 Nautical Miles Northwest of San Francisco, California, February 19, 1985‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2022, page 12:

     The wings were bent or set permanently 2 to 3 inches upward at the wingtips; however, the set was within the manufacturer's allowable tolerances.

9. A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
10. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
11. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
12. A young oyster when first attached.
13. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
14. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
15. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.

    the set of a coat

16. The pattern of a tartan, etc.
17. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
18. The full number of eggs set under a hen.
19. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

      We will in France, by God's grace, play a set / Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.

    • Шаблон:RQ:Dryden Hind and Panther
    • 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

From Средњи Енглески sett, from Стари Енглески ġesett, past participle of settan.

set (comparative more set, superlative most set)

1. Fixed in position.
   • 2013 јул 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     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.

2. Rigid, solidified.
3. Ready, prepared.

   on your marks, get set, go!;  on your marks, set, go!

4. Intent, determined (to do something).

   set on getting to his destination

   • Шаблон:RQ:Stevenson Osbourne Wrecker
5. Prearranged.

   a set menu ― a meal that is instituted by a restaurateur for a limited occasion

   a set book ― a required reading for a course in an educational institution

6. Fixed in one’s opinion.

   I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them.

7. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

• (intent, determined): determined, intent
• (prearranged): dictated, prearranged, predetermined, prescribed, specified
• (fixed in one's opinion): fixed, rigid

From Средњи Енглески set, sete, sette (“that which is set, the act of setting, seat”), from Стари Енглески set (“setting, seat, a place where people remain, habitation, camp, entrenchment, a place where animals are kept, stall, fold”) and Стари Енглески seten (“a set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery, plantation; that which is planted or set; a cultivated place; planting, cultivation; a setting, putting; a stopping; occupied land”), related to Стари Енглески settan (“to set”). Compare Middle Low German gesette (“a set, suite”), Стари Енглески gesetl (“assembly”). According to Skeat, in senses denoting a group of things or persons, representing an alteration of sept, from Стари Француски sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Латински secta (“a faction”). See sect. It is quite possible that the modern word is more of a merger between both, however.

set (plural sets)

1. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
2. A rudimentary fruit.
3. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842
   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3
4. (literally and figurative) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
   • 1840, Thomas De Quincey, Style:

     Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief.

   • 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 238:

     He put his eye to the alidade. “I thought so! Zero five four and that's allowing nothing for set and drift along the line of bearing. We're inside the departure point now […] ”

5. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)

   a set of tables

6. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.

   a set of tools

7. An object made up of several parts.

   a set of steps

9. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
10. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
11. A group of people, usually meeting socially.

    the country set

    • Шаблон:RQ:Thackeray Pendennis
12. The scenery for a film or play.
13. the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
14. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
16. (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.

    Meronym: reps

    • 1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22:

      This is the fourth set of benchpresses.

18. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
19. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
20. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
22. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
    • 2017 јун 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎^[2]:

      You heard “oh, Jeremy Corbyn” everywhere: at the silent disco, during Radiohead’s Friday night headlining set, midway through the Other stage appearance by rapper Stormzy, who gamely joined in.

23. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.

    He plays the set on Saturdays.

24. (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
    • 2012 април 26, “Themes: Pupil grouping and organisation of classes”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3], Department for Education, archived from the original on 14 June 2012:

      Looking at pupil attainment, the study found that students with the same Key Stage 3 scores could have their GCSE grade raised or lowered by up to half a grade as a result of being placed in a higher or lower set.

25. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).^[1]

• (close of the day): dusk, eve, evening, sundown, sunset
• (general movement): direction, drift, heading, motion, movement, path, tendency, trend
• (matching collection of similar things): suite
• (set theory, in plural): set theory
• (group of people, usually meeting socially): club, coterie
• (scenery): scenery
• (performance of several musical pieces): gig, session
• (drum kit): drums, drum kit, drum set
• (three of a kind): three of a kind