“sets” is a form of
set
/sɛt/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun
Forms sets setting setten settest setteth setted Seth Sutekh
- verb (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest. “Set the tray there.”
- verb (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. “I have set my heart on running the marathon.”
- verb (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- verb (transitive) To start (a fire).
- verb (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot. “to set a coach in the mud”
- verb (transitive) To determine or settle. “to set the rent”
- verb (transitive) To adjust. “I set the alarm at 6 a.m.”
- verb (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- noun A punch for setting nails in wood. “nail set”
- noun A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television. “television set”
- noun (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- noun The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- noun (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc. “the set of a spring”
- noun A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- noun (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- noun (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
- adjective Fixed in position.
- adjective Rigid, solidified.
- adjective Ready, prepared. “on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!”
- adjective Intent, determined (to do something). “set on getting to his destination”
Synonyms
put lay set down light typeset set up cure jell jell out go down go west determined intent dictated prearranged predetermined prescribed specified fixed rigid exercise set stage set circle band lot bent hardening solidifying solidification curing
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan, from Proto-Germanic *satjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).
Cognate with Dutch zetten, German setzen, Danish sætte, Norwegian Bokmål sette, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk setja, Swedish sätta, Faroese seta.
From Middle English set, sette, from Old English set (“seat, place of residence, camp, settlement, entrenchment, stable, pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *set (“seat”), from Proto-Germanic *setą (“seat”).
From Middle English sett, from Old English ġesett, past participle of settan.
From Middle English set, sete, sette (“that which is set, the act of setting, seat”), from Old English set (“setting, seat, a place where people remain, habitation, camp, entrenchment, a place where animals are kept, stall, fold”) and Old English seten (“a set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery, plantation; that which is planted or set; a cultivated place; planting, cultivation; a setting, putting; a stopping; occupied land”), related to Old English settan (“to set”). Compare Middle Low German gesette (“a set, suite”), Old English gesetl (“assembly”). According to Skeat, in senses denoting a group of things or persons, representing an alteration of sept, from Old French sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Latin secta (“a faction”). See sect. It is quite possible that the modern word is more of a merger between both, however.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.
- verb Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- verb To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end. Ere the weary sun set in the west. Shak.
- verb To fit music to words. [Obs.] Shak.
Etymology [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. sätta, Dan. s, Goth. satjan; causative from the root of E. sit. Sit, and cf. Seize.]
Etymology [Perhaps due to confusion with sect, sept.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “set”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details