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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. — Thomas De Quincey.

A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun).

a set of tables

A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.

a set of tools

An object made up of several parts.

a set of steps

(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.

(in plural, “sets”, mathematics) INF Set theory.

A group of people, usually meeting socially.

the country set

The scenery for a film or play.

(dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.

(exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.

(tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.

(volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.

(volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.

(music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.

(music) A drum kit, a drum set.

He plays the set on Saturdays.

(Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.

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.

(poker) SLA Three of a kind in poker. In community card games, the term is usually reserved for a situation in which a pair in a player's hand is matched by a single card on the board. Compare with trips.

동사 (Verb)SGsetsPRsettingPT, PPsettedPPsetten

VT To put (something) down, to rest.
1. Set the tray there. ‎

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

I have set my heart on running the marathon.

VT To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.

VT (dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

to set a coach in the mud

VT To determine or settle.

to set the rent ‎

VT To adjust.

I set the alarm at 6 a.m. ‎

VT To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.

VT To arrange with dishes and cutlery.

Please set the table for our guests. ‎

VT To introduce or describe.

VT To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.

He says he will set his next film in France. ‎

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

This crossword was set by Araucaria.

VT To prepare (a stage or film set).

VT To fit (someone) up in a situation.

VT To arrange (type).

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

VT To devise and assign (work) to.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

VT (volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.

VI To solidify.

The glue sets in four minutes. ‎

VT To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.

to set milk for cheese

VI 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. ‎

VT (bridge) To defeat a contract.

OBS (now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.

VI (of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.

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

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.

To hunt game with the aid of a setter.

(hunting, transitive) VI Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.

The dog sets the bird.
Your dog sets well.

OBS To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.

VT VI To fit music to words.

VT VI To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

to set pear trees in an orchard

To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

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.

To place or fix in a setting.

to set a precious stone in a border of metal
to set glass in a sash

To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.

to set (that is, to hone) a razor
to set a saw

To extend and bring into position; to spread.

to set the sails of a ship

To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.

to set a psalm

To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.

to set a broken bone

(masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.

OBS To wager in gambling; to risk.

To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.

OBS To value; to rate; used with at.

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

to set a good example; to set lessons to be learned

(Scotland) To suit; to become.

It sets him ill.

(Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

형용사 (Adjective)COMmore setSUPmost set

Fixed in position.
1. 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.

Rigid, solidified.

Ready, prepared.

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

Intent, determined (to do something).

set on getting to his destination ‎

Prearranged.

a set menu ‎

Fixed in one’s opinion.

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

(of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

더 많은 예제

문장 중간에 사용됨
- What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place.
- On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now.
- In this paper, we define multiprojective witness sets which will encode the multidegree information of an irreducible multiprojective variety.
문장의 시작에 사용됨
- Set it back from the road by twenty or thirty feet. ‎
- Set in Amritsar, “Rab” reteams the director Aditya Chopra with Shahrukh Khan, Hindi cinema's reigning superstar, and the two deftly and winningly blend comedy and melodrama.
문장의 끝에서 사용
- Ploidy levels of the regenerants were determined by flow cytometry or by detection of sterile and fertile plants as inferred by inflorescence, mature pollen grain production, and seed set.
- He couldn't afford the expensive headphones, so he decided to settle for the lower quality set.
- Minute quantities of chiral molecules such as amino acid L-alanine and limonene transform the racemic array of left- and right-twisted tactoids into a homochiral set.

Meaning of set for the defined word.