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Type Words
Synonyms band, circle, lot
Type of social group
Has types car pool, cohort, conspiracy, ingroup, confederacy, jet set, company, inner circle, clique, horsey set, party, pack, horsy set, camp, four hundred, coterie


the smart set goes there.
Type Words
Synonyms lay out, set up
Type of set up, fix, ready, gear up, prepare
Derivation setting


set up an experiment.
set the table.
Type Words
Synonyms exercise set
Type of exercise, workout, physical exertion, physical exercise, exercising


he did four sets of the incline bench press.
Type Words
Synonyms stage set
Type of representation
Has types scene, scenery


the sets were meticulously authentic.
Type Words
Synonyms bent
Type of disposition, inclination, tendency


the set of his mind was obvious.
Type Words
Synonyms go down, go under
Type of go down, descend, fall, come down


the sun sets early these days.
Type Words
Synonyms define, determine, fix, limit, specify
Type of pick out, choose, select, take
Has types define, name, quantify, reset
Type Words
Synonyms plant
Type of lay, place, put, pose, position
Has types afforest, tree, dibble, bed, checkrow, forest, replant, puddle, root
Type Words
Synonyms mark
Type of establish, make, lay down


set a record.
Type Words
Synonyms sic
Type of assail, attack, set on, assault
Type Words
Synonyms laid


a carefully laid table with places set for four people.
Type Words
Synonyms fit, primed


we are set to go at any time.
Type Words
Synonyms hardened
Type Words
Synonyms fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set up
Type of modify, change, alter
Has types winterise, winterize, precondition, prime, work, cultivate, summerize, summerise, set up, brace, cram, mount, lay out, poise, crop, socialize, socialise, fix, provide
Type Words
Synonyms determined, dictated


the time set for the launching.
Type Words
Synonyms rig, set up
Type of outfit, fit out, fit, equip
Type Words
Synonyms countersink
Type of bury, sink
Type Words
Synonyms localise, localize, place
Type of present, stage, represent


The film is set in Africa.
Type Words
Synonyms fixed, rigid


with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare.
his bearded face already has a set hollow look.
Type Words
Synonyms lay, place, pose, position, put
Type of displace, move
Has types emplace, ensconce, docket, dispose, deposit, fix, cram, coffin, cock, clap, glycerolise, glycerolize, butt, ground, bucket, bottle, imbricate, inclose, bed, barrel, insert, instal, install, intersperse, introduce, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay, lay over, lean, arrange, load, appose, marshal, middle, misplace, nestle, parallelize, park, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, place down, place upright, plant, poise, posit, position, postpose, prepose, put back, put down, put in, rack up, recess, recline, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, seed, set down, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, ship, sign, siphon, sit, sit down, situate, snuggle, sow, space, stand, stand up, step, stick in, stratify, superimpose, superpose, tee, tee up, throw, thrust, trench, underlay, upend, enclose
Derivation setting
Type Words
Synonyms arrange
Type of compose, write
Has types tabulate, put, transpose, table, tabularise, prearrange, tabularize


set this poem to music.
Type Words
Synonyms readiness
Type of state of mind, cognitive state


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.
Type Words
Synonyms congeal, jell
Type of solidify
Type Words
Synonyms located, placed, situated


a house set on a hilltop.
Type Words
Synonyms determine
Has types place, value, filiate, price, assess, charge, date, identify, tax, format, initialise, initialize


set the rules.
Type Words
Synonyms seth
Type Words
Synonyms arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress
Type of neaten, groom
Has types wave, bob
Verb group dress, groom, curry
Type Words
Synonyms adjust, correct
Type of change, modify, alter
Has types zero, zero in, tune up, tune, trim, time, temper, synchronize, synchronise, sync, sharpen, reset, regulate, reconcile, readjust, proportion, pressurize, pressurise, plumb, ordinate, modulate, align, match, linearize, linearise, justify, attune, harmonize, harmonise, calibrate, graduate, citify, focus, coordinate, focalize, focalise, fit, decompress, fine-tune, depressurise, depressurize
Type Words
Synonyms place, put
Type of approximate, gauge, judge, estimate, guess
Type Words
Synonyms curing, hardening, solidification, solidifying
Type of natural action, action, activity, natural process
Has types congelation, congealment


he tested the set of the glue.
Type Words
Synonyms fructify
Type of reproduce, multiply, procreate
Type Words
Synonyms typeset
Type of print, impress


My book will be typeset nicely.
set these words in italics.
Type Words
Type of aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage
Has types product, portfolio, triplet, triple, cartesian product, trio, triad, threescore, teeth, union, synset, conjugation, consort, sum, core, core group, suite, dentition, nucleus, singleton, sextette, sextet, quartet, octet, octette, pair, choir, sestet, quadruple, manicure set, field, septette, septet, quadruplet, score, chess set, brace, quintuplet, quintuple, quintette, bracket, intersection, quintet, join, quartette


a set of books.
a set of golf clubs.
a set of teeth.
Type Words
Type of electronic equipment
Has types receiving system, sender, transmitter, receiver


the early sets ran on storage batteries.
Type Words
Type of initiate, originate, start


set fire to a building.
Type Words
Type of play, period of play, playing period


they played two sets of tennis after dinner.
Type Words


the moon is set.
Type Words
Type of arrange, set up
Derivation setting


The goldsmith set the diamond.
Type Words
Type of hone
Type Words
Type of abstraction, abstract entity
Has types topological space, mathematical group, mathematical space, universal set, mandelbrot set, subset, solution, domain, domain of a function, field, group, image, intersection, root, null set, range of a function, range, interval, diagonal, locus


the set of prime numbers is infinite.
Type Words
Type of modify, change, alter
Has types pitch, keynote


set the house afire.
Type Words
Type of place, pose, put, lay, position


set a broken bone.
Type Words
Type of adjust, correct
Has types reset, advance, set ahead
Derivation setting


set clocks or instruments.
Type Words
Type of locating, position, positioning, location, placement, emplacement


he gave a final set to his hat.
Type Words
Type of descent


before the set of sun.

Examples of set

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After an appeal, the 2007 value was set at $51,000, and his taxes were adjusted.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
A refusal of the judge's warrant would be subject to a different set of charges.
From the dailyherald.com
Are you guys simply covering all the angles or are we being set up for the fall?
From the stltoday.com
Pour into the top of a double boiler or into a metal bowl set in a pan of water.
From the stltoday.com
Heagney set the new matter for a hearing June 4, and promised a ruling that day.
From the stltoday.com
The district set preschool tuition at more than $300 less than this year's rate.
From the stltoday.com
We both have the same mind-set this season because of what took place last year.
From the thenewstribune.com
Emma and Jacob had set the table for us all to sit down and eat when we arrived.
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He set up camp at the station and went on air, non-stop, for a record 200 hours.
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More examples
  • A group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth"
  • Put: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • Fit(p): (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "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"
  • (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite"
  • Determine: fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules"
  • Fixed: fixed and unmoving; "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"
  • Seth (Hebrew: u05E9u05B5u05C1u05EA, Standard u0160et, Tiberian u0160u0113u1E6F; Arabic: u0634u0650u064Au062Bu200Eu200E (Sheeth); placed; appointed"), in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)...
  • The terms seu1E6D and aniu1E6D refer to classes of roots in Sanskrit grammar. In the terminology of Pu0101u1E47ini, seu1E6D (from sa-iu1E6D, Au1E63u1E6Du0101dhyu0101yu012B 1.2.18, 6.4.121) means "with an i-sound", and an-iu1E6D (Au1E63u1E6Du0101dhyu0101yu012B 3.1.45, 6.1.188, 6.4.51, 7.2.61) means "without an i-sound".
  • A set is an associative container data structure that is available as part of the C++ Standard Library (STL), and contains a sorted set of unique objects. ...