Set and String

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.

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

noun

• A lightweight cord.
  • synonyms: twine
• Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.
  • usage: "the strings played superlatively well"
  • synonyms: bowed stringed instrument
• A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
• A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
  • usage: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
  • synonyms: train
• A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases. )
• A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.
  • usage: "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
  • synonyms: drawstring, drawing string
• A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod. )
• Cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
  • synonyms: cosmic string
• A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
• A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
  • usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
  • synonyms: chain, strand

verb

• Thread on or as if on a string.
  • usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
  • synonyms: thread, draw
• Add as if on a string.
  • usage: "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
  • synonyms: string up
• Move or come along.
  • synonyms: string along
• Stretch out or arrange like a string.
• String together; tie or fasten with a string.
  • usage: "string the package"
• Remove the stringy parts of.
  • usage: "string beans"
• Provide with strings.
  • usage: "string my guitar"

• (n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
• (n.) Act of stringing for break.
• (n.) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
• (n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• (v.t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
• (v.i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched or people who are moving along, etc.
• (n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
• (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
• (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• (v.t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
• (n.) The points made in a game.
• (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
• (v.t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
• (n.) Same as Stringcourse.
• (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
• (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
• (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
• (v.t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
• (v.t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
• (n.) A small cord, a line, a twine or a slender strip of leather or other substance, used for binding together, fastening or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
• (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
• (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• (v.t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
• (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.