set
set [-s, -test, -ting] v
OE 'to sit'.
- Step; dance; [word play] fit to music; adapt with notes.
- Display; array; arrange; [phrase “set the fashion”] establish as a trend.
- Make; cause to become.
- Congeal; become fixed.
- Decline; appear to be going down on the horizon; sit lower on the horizon at end of day.
- Put; place; pose; position; send; arrange; appoint; order; [fig.] cause; allow to happen
- Exhibit; present; stage; lay out for viewing.
- Determine; define.
- Give; pose; present with.
- Regress; retrogress; begin to move away.
- Rest; fix; remain; stay permanently.
- Land; approach the earth; [fig.] crash; fall; [antonym “set off”] rise; take off.
- Mark; etch; delineate.
- Decline; pass below the horizon; [fig.] die; come to an end.
- Mold; shape; form; [fig.] make manifest; cause to be visible.
- Consider; name; perceive; regard; identify; recognize.
- Locate; situate.
- Finish; end.
- Furnish with dishes and other utensils for dining
- Plant; cause to stand.
- Phrase. “set … at liberty”: liberate; emancipate; [fig.] dismiss; release; enable to leave.
- Phrase. “set … away”: save; reserve; put by; store out of sight for future use.
- Phrase. “Set separate”: take away; move apart; [fig.] take by death; place in the grave; lay in the tomb; fix in the ground.
- Phrase. “set … up”: erect; adjust; ground; cause to stand; place on a firm foundation.
- Phrase. “arise and set”: ascend and descend; go up and go down; [fig.] come and go repeatedly; appear and pass away continuously.
- Phrase. “set down”: station; post; put in place.
- Phrase. “set … in”: restore; return to proper place; return from a fractured state.
- Phrase. “set … down”: stop; settle; arrive.