Commit and Set

commit

(v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v.t.) To confound.
(v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
(v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

verb

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- synonyms: invest, put, place
Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

set

noun

A group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.
- usage: "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth"
Mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols. (
- usage: "the set of prime numbers is infinite"
Several exercises intended to be done in series.
- usage: "he did four sets of the incline bench press"
- synonyms: exercise set
Representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production.
- usage: "the sets were meticulously authentic"
- synonyms: stage set
An unofficial association of people or groups.
- usage: "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot"
- synonyms: circle, band, lot
A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way.
- usage: "the set of his mind was obvious"
- synonyms: bent
The act of putting something in position.
- usage: "he gave a final set to his hat"
A unit of play in tennis or squash.
- usage: "they played two sets of tennis after dinner"
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.
- usage: "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue"
- synonyms: hardening, solidifying, solidification, curing
Evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris.
- synonyms: Seth
The descent of a heavenly body below the horizon.
- usage: "before the set of sun"
Psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way. (
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: readiness
Any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals.
- usage: "the early sets ran on storage batteries"

verb

Put into a certain place or abstract location.
- usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
- synonyms: put, place, pose, position, lay
Fix conclusively or authoritatively.
- usage: "set the rules"
- synonyms: determine
Decide upon or fix definitely.
- usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- synonyms: specify, determine, define, fix, limit
Establish as the highest level or best performance.
- usage: "set a record"
- synonyms: mark
Put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state.
- usage: "set the house afire"
Fix in a border.
- usage: "The goldsmith set the diamond"
Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
- usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
- synonyms: fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up
Set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly.
- usage: "set clocks or instruments"
Locate.
- usage: "The film is set in Africa"
- synonyms: localize, localise, place
Disappear beyond the horizon.
- usage: "the sun sets early these days"
- synonyms: go down, go under
Adapt for performance in a different way.
- usage: "set this poem to music"
- synonyms: arrange
Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground.
- usage: "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
- synonyms: plant
Apply or start.
- usage: "set fire to a building"
Become gelatinous.
- usage: "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme"
- synonyms: jell, congeal
Set in type.
- usage: "My book will be typeset nicely"; "set these words in italics"
- synonyms: typeset
Put into a position that will restore a normal state.
- usage: "set a broken bone"
Insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink.
- synonyms: countersink
Give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor.
Urge to attack someone.
- usage: "The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders"; "the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits"
- synonyms: sic
Estimate.
- usage: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P. M."
- synonyms: place, put
Equip with sails or masts.
- usage: "rig a ship"
- synonyms: rig, set up
Get ready for a particular purpose or event.
- usage: "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
- synonyms: set up, lay out
Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.
- usage: "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
- synonyms: adjust, correct
Bear fruit.
- usage: "the apple trees fructify"
- synonyms: fructify
Arrange attractively.
- usage: "dress my hair for the wedding"
- synonyms: dress, arrange, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure

adjective

Usually followed by `to' or `for'. ( on the point of or strongly disposed)
- usage: "in no fit state to continue"; "fit to drop"; "laughing fit to burst"; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time"
- synonyms: fit, primed
Fixed and unmoving.
- usage: "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain"
- synonyms: fixed, rigid
Situated in a particular spot or position.
- usage: "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank"
- synonyms: located, placed, situated
(adj.) ()
- synonyms: laid
Being below the horizon.
- usage: "the moon is set"
Determined or decided upon as by an authority.
- usage: "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"
- synonyms: determined, dictated
Converted to solid form (as concrete. ).
- synonyms: hardened

(n.) A stone, commonly of granite, shaped like a short brick and usually somewhat larger than one, used for street paving. Commonly written sett.
(n.) Any of various standards of measurement of the fineness of cloth; specifically, the number of reeds in one inch and the number of threads in each reed. The exact meaning varies according to the location where it is used. Sometimes written sett.
(n.) The manner, state or quality of setting or fitting; fit; as, the set of a coat.
(n.) Camber of a curved roofing tile.
(v.i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
(n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
(n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind or of a current.
(v.t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
(v.t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(v.t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
(v.t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
(v.t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
(n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
(v.t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
(v.t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
(n.) A young oyster when first attached.
(v.i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
(v.t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
(v.i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
(v.t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
(a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
(v.t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
(v.i.) To fit music to words.
(n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
(n.) The deflection of a tooth or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf or make an opening, wider than the blade.
(n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
(v.t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
(imp.&p.p.) of Set.
(n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
(v.t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
(v.t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
(v.i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
(v.t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
(v.t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
(v.i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
(a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
(v.t.) To make to assume specified place, condition or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
(n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
(v.t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form or condition to.
(n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
(v.t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
(v.t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
(v.i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
(a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
(n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
(v.i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
(n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
(n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.
(v.t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
(v.i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
(n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
(v.t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else or in or upon a certain place.
(v.t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
(n.) That which is set, placed or fixed.
(a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
(n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
(v.i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
(n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
(v.t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
(v.t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.
(a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
(v.t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
(v.i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Set is a masculine given name

Hebrew: Compensation
Egyptian Mythology: Variant of Seth
Egyptian: Son of Seb and Nut

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