set
From Wiktionary
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- (transitive) If you set something somewhere, you put something into a place
- (transitive) If you set something, you put it into some state or condition.
- (transitive) If you set something, you define it or to fix its value.
- (transitive) If you set the table, you put dishes, forks, knives and so on on it.
- I set the table for five persons but only three came
- (intransitive) If the sun or moon sets, it sink towards or below the horizon
- The sun sets every evening.
- (intransitive) If the something sets, it dries and becomes solid.
- The past tense and past participle of set.
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It is illegal to set fire to the forest. |
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- Something that is set is fixed. It cannot be changed easily.
- Don't argue! The rules are set.
- The time for the race is set.
- To be ready for something.
- Are you set?
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- A group of things that can be used together.
- A group of things, where every single one of them has a certain purpose. All of them are needed to perform a certain operation.
- A group of similar things.
- Persons that have something in common may be called a set.
- The machine with which one gets radio or television programs.
- This television set is broken.
- This radio set can receive programs from Australia.
- In many sports, a number of sets make up a game. This is the case, for example, in tennis and table tennis.
- The tennis player won the first two sets, but lost the game.
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A set for the care of fingernails. |