The context and environment in which something is set:
— The perfect setting for a ghost story.

synonym: scene.

Dutch: context

The state of the environment in which a situation exists:
— You can't do that in a university setting.

synonyms: background, scope.

Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted.

synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting.

The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event.

synonyms: circumstance, context.

Dutch: context, omstandigheid
Polish: sceneria, sztafaż, tło, kontekst

The physical position of something.

A table service for one person:
— A place setting of sterling flatware.

synonym: place setting.

A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place.

synonym: mount.

A group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.

Roget 46: coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness; concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration; aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering etc. v.; connection; dependence.    tenacity, toughness; stickiness etc. 352; inseparability, inseparableness; bur, remora.    conglomerate, concrete etc. (density) 321.    ... show more

Roget 75: class, division, category, categorema^†, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.    kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.    manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.    similarity etc. 17.    ... show more

Roget 240: form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour etc. (outline) 230; structure etc. 329; plasmature^†.    feature, lineament, turn; phase etc. (aspect) 448; posture, attitude, pose.    [Science of form] morphism.    [Similarity of form] isomorphism.    forming etc. v.; formation, figuration, efformation^†; sculpture; plasmation^†.    ... show more

Roget 278: direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency etc. 176; incidence; bending, trending etc. v.; dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage.    point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c.; rhumb^†, azimuth, line of collimation.    line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment^†; air line, beeline; straight shoot.    ... show more

Dutch: ensemble, set
Polish: komplet

mathematics An abstract collection of numbers or symbols.

Dutch: verzameling, groep
Polish: zbiór, mnogość

Several exercises intended to be done in series:
— He did four sets of the incline bench press.

synonym: exercise set.

Dutch: stel

Representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production:
— The sets were meticulously authentic.

synonym: stage set.

Dutch: decor
Polish: scenografia

An unofficial association of people or groups:
— The smart set goes there.

synonyms: band, circle, lot.

Roget 712: party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band.    horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, etc. 166; team; tong.    council etc. 696.    community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere^†, familistery^†; brotherhood, sisterhood.    knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino^†; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].    corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership^†, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.    society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein [G.], Bund [G.], Zollverein [G.], combination; Turnverein [G.]; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla^†, camorra^†, brigue^†; freemasonry; party spirit etc. (cooperation) 709.    Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.. staff; dramatis personae [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 7: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect etc. (appearance) 448, dilemma, pass, predicament.    constitution, habitude, diathesis^†; frame, fabric etc. 329; stamp, set, fit, mold, mould.    mode, modality, schesis^†; form etc. (shape) 240.    tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character.    ... show more

Roget 72: assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation^†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement^†; team; concourse, conflux^†, congregation, contesseration^†, convergence etc. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] etc. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^†; conclave etc. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.    miscellany, collectanea^†; museum, menagerie etc. (store) 636; museology^†.    crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue^†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo^†; bunch, drive, force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda^†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment etc. (combatants) 726; host etc. (multitude) 102; populousness.    clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association etc. (party) 712.    volley, shower, storm, cloud.    group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^†, fasces^†, bale; seron^†, seroon^†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^†, stack, sheaf, haycock^†; fascicle, fascicule^†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^†, stook^†.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation^†, cumulation; glomeration^†, agglomeration; conglobation^†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation^†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium^†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity etc. (greatness) 31.    collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.    ... show more

Dutch: groep, kring
Polish: grono, koło, krąg

A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way:
— The set of his mind was obvious.

synonym: bent.

Roget 176: tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus [Lat.], nisus [Lat.]; liability etc. 177; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy^†, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift etc. (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement^†; applicability etc. (utility) 644; subservience etc. (instrumentality) 631.    ... show more

The act of putting something in position.

A unit of play in tennis or squash.

Dutch: set
Polish: set

The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization:
— He tested the set of the glue.

synonyms: curing, hardening, solidification, solidifying.

Dutch: stolling
Polish: zastygnięcie

Evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris.

synonym: Seth.

The descent of a heavenly body below the horizon.

Dutch: ondergaan

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.

synonym: readiness.

Dutch: bereidheid

Any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals.

Polish: sprzęt radiowo-telewizyjny, sprzęt RTV, rtv, RTV

Put into a certain place or abstract location:
— Set the tray down.
— Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children.

synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, put.

Roget 184: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant etc. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit^†; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.    billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag.    inhabit etc. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher [Fr.], bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.    endenizen^†, naturalize, adopt.    put back, replace etc. (restore) 660.    ... show more

Roget 240: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform^†, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build etc. (construct) 161.    ... show more

Roget 253: be sharp etc. adj.; taper to a point; bristle with.    render sharp etc. adj.; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate^†, set, strop, grind; chip (flint). cut etc. (sunder) 44.    ... show more

Roget 741: command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders.    prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task; set to work, put in requisition.    bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of; exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on etc. (compel) 744.    claim, lay claim to, revendicate^†, reclaim.    cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.    issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order etc. n.; give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command etc. (authority) 737; remand.    be ordered &c.; receive an order etc. n.. ... show more

Dutch: zetten, neerzetten, brengen, plaatsen, stellen

Fix conclusively or authoritatively:
— Set the rules.

synonym: determine.

Dutch: bepalen, stellen, vaststellen

Decide upon or fix definitely.

synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, specify.

Establish as the highest level or best performance:
— Set a record.

synonym: mark.

Put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state.

Dutch: bepalen, aanpassen

Fix in a border.

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.

synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set up.

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody^†; roll into one.    attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast etc. adj.; tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter etc. (restrain) 751; lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple^†, link, yoke, bracket; marry etc. (wed) 903; bridge over, span.    braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase^†; graft, ingraft^†, inosculate^†; entwine, intwine^†; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist^†, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.    be joined &c.; hang together, hold together; cohere etc. 46.    ... show more

Roget 150: be firm etc. adj.; stick fast; stand firm, keep firm, remain firm; weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle under.    settle, establish, stablish^†, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate^†; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten etc. (join) 43; set on its legs, float; perpetuate.    settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's abode etc. 184; build one's house on a rock.    ... show more

Roget 673: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation.    set in order, put in order etc. (arrange) 60; forecast etc. (plan) 626; prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone etc. (begin) 66.    roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape etc. (form) 240.    elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture etc. (aid) 707; hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate^†; maturate.    equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim^†, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust etc. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.    train etc. (teach) 537; inure etc. (habituate) 613; breed; prepare for &c.; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door to etc. (facilitate) 705.    set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards.    prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship etc. (learn) 539; lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter [Fr.], prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to.    guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest; lay in provisions etc. 637; make investments; keep on foot.    be prepared, be ready etc. adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one's powder dry; lie in wait for etc. (expect) 507; anticipate etc. (foresee) 510; principiis obstare [Lat.]; veniente occurrere morbo [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 321: be dense etc. adj.; become solid, render solid etc. adj.; solidify, solidate^†; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify etc. (harden) 323.    condense, thicken, gel, inspissate^†, incrassate^†; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.    ... show more

Dutch: bereiden, opzetten, klaarmaken, opmaken, prepareren, voorbereiden

Set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly.

Locate:
— The film is set in Africa.

synonyms: localise, localize, place.

Disappear beyond the horizon:
— The sun sets early these days.

synonyms: go down, go under.

Roget 306: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.    dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop etc. 308; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall etc. 308.    tumble, trip, stumble, titubate^†, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.    ... show more

Dutch: ondergaan, zetten, opdragen

Adapt for performance in a different way:
— Set this poem to music.

synonym: arrange.

Dutch: arrangeren

Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground.

synonym: plant.

Dutch: dekken, inplanten, planten

Apply or start.

Become gelatinous.

synonyms: congeal, jell.

Dutch: stremmen, stollen

Set in type:
— My book will be typeset nicely.
— Set these words in italics.

synonym: typeset.

Dutch: zetten

Put into a position that will restore a normal state.

Insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink).

synonym: countersink.

Give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor.

Urge to attack someone.

synonym: sic.

Estimate.

synonyms: place, put.

Equip with sails or masts.

synonyms: rig, set up.

Dutch: optakelen, optuigen, tuigen

Get ready for a particular purpose or event:
— Set up an experiment.
— Set the table.

synonyms: lay out, set up.

Dutch: inrichten, toebereiden

Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.

synonyms: adjust, correct.

Dutch: afstellen, gelijkzetten, instellen, stellen

Bear fruit.

synonym: fructify.

Arrange attractively.

synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress.

Dutch: coifferen, kappen

usually followed by `to' or `for' On the point of or strongly disposed:
— We are set to go at any time.

synonyms: fit, primed.

Roget 43: joined etc. v.; joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact; hand in hand.    firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved^†; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable^†, severable.    ... show more

Roget 253: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform^†; aculeated^†, acuminated^†; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate^†, mucronated^†; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform^†, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated^†; cornute^†, cornuted^†, cornicultate^†; prickly; spiny, spinous^†, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated^†, pectinated^†, studded, thistly, briary^†; craggy etc. (rough) 256; snaggy, digitated^†, two-edged, fusiform [Micro.]; dentiform^†, denticulated; toothed; odontoid^†; starlike; stellated^†, stelliform^†; sagittate^†, sagittiform^†; arrowheaded^†; arrowy^†, barbed, spurred.    acinaciform; apiculate^†, apiculated^†; aristate^†, awned, awny^†, bearded, calamiform^†, cone-shaped, coniform^†, crestate^†, echinate^†, gladiate^†; lanceolate^†, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious^†, spinuliferous^†, subulate^†, tetrahedral, xiphoid^†.    cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; sharpened etc. v.; set ... show more

Fixed and unmoving:
— With eyes set in a fixed glassy stare.
— His bearded face already has a set hollow look.

synonyms: fixed, rigid.

Roget 613: habitual; accustomary^†; prescriptive, accustomed etc. v.; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary^†; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.    conformable.    etc. 82; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable etc. (genteel) 852.    wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated etc. v.; in the habit of; habitue; at home in etc. (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to.    hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted^†, permanent, inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained etc. (intrinsic) 5.    ... show more

Situated in a particular spot or position:
— A house set on a hilltop.

synonyms: located, placed, situated.

Set down according to a plan:
— A carefully laid table with places set for four people.

synonym: laid.

Being below the horizon.

Determined or decided upon as by an authority:
— The time set for the launching.

synonyms: determined, dictated.

Converted to solid form (as concrete).

synonym: hardened.