Setting
['setɪŋ] or ['sɛtɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the context and environment in which something is set; 'the perfect setting for a ghost story'.
(noun.) the physical position of something; 'he changed the setting on the thermostat'.
(noun.) the state of the environment in which a situation exists; 'you can't do that in a university setting'.
Typed by Carolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
(n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
(n.) Something set in, or inserted.
(n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
Checker: Maryann
Definition
n. act of setting: direction of a current of wind: the hardening of plaster: that which holds as the mounting of a jewel: the mounting of a play &c. for the stage: act of adapting to music.
Inputed by Elizabeth
Examples
- Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My footman was at that instance setting off for my sister and Dr. Bain: and my good housekeeper was in tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I've found a sov'rin' cure for that, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, setting down the glass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I will leave your house without eating or drinking, or setting foot in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If it ends in your setting the house on fire, Damme if I send for the engines, unless you ring the bell and order them first! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He studied the sp ecies in their natural setting, the habitat, and range, and habits, and food of the different varieties. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Keimer and I lived on a pretty good, familiar footing, and agreed tolerably well; for he suspected nothing of my setting up. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Collateral with the development of the printing press are three important branches of the art--stereotyping, paper making, and type setting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He might'--here the little creature glanced back over her shoulder at the sky--'be setting the house on fire at this present moment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When evening came on, and the last rays of the setting sun penetrated through the side windows, this hall looked like a veritable Faust laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An immense building of glass, with all the properties and stage-settings of a regular theatre, is required. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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