SET

SET 3 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter T

We have found 59 definitions.

(imp. & p. p.) of Set

(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. t.) Hence to attach or affix (something) to something else or in or upon a certain place.

(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.

(v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast permanent or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place form or condition to.

(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. 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 fix in the ground as a post or a tree; to plant; as to set pear trees in an orchard.

(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 render stiff or solid; especially to convert into curd; to curdle; as to set milk for cheese.

(v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.

(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.

(v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as to set the sails of a ship.

(v. t.) To give a pitch to as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as to set a psalm.

(v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as to set a broken bone.

(v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as to set a watch or a clock.

(v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.

(v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

(v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt as words to notes; to prepare for singing.

(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. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.

(v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.

(v. t.) To point out the seat or position of as birds or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.

(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. t.) To suit; to become; as it sets him ill.

(v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words lines etc.; as to set type; to set a page.

(v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.

(v. i.) To fit music to words.

(v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

(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).

(v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

(v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.

(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. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.

(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. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.

(v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as the coat sets well.

(a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as a set line; a set countenance.

(a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as set opinions or prejudices.

(a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as a set discourse; a set battle.

(a.) Established; prescribed; as set forms of prayer.

(a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.

(n.) The act of setting as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence the close; termination.

(n.) That which is set placed or fixed.

(n.) A young plant for growth; as a set of white thorn.

(n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence a game at venture.

(n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain as from compression tension bending twisting etc.; as the set of a spring.

(n.) A kind of punch used for bending indenting or giving shape to metal; as a saw set.

(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.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.

(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.

(n.) A number of persons associated by custom office common opinion quality or the like; a division; a group; a clique.

(n.) Direction or course; as the set of the wind or of a current.

(n.) In dancing the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also the series of figures or movements executed.

(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.) A young oyster when first attached.

(n.) Collectively the crop of young oysters in any locality.

(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.

(n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.

Syllable Information

The word SET is a 3 letter word that contains 1 syllable .

The syllable division for the word SET is SET

Other words from SET

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