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Setter
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A typesetter.
"Any query to the setter is required to be addressed as such (e.g., "Setter: Please check"); otherwise it will be treated as a query to the author."
- 2 a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point wordnet
- 3 One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
"The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood."
- 4 one who sets written material into type wordnet
- 5 Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
"She has a spaniel and a red setter."
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- 6 The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- 7 A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- 8 A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
"It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked [Julien] Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in [Roger] Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses."
- 9 One who hunts victims for sharpers.
"O, 'tis our setter. I know his voice"
- 10 One who adapts words to music in composition.
- 11 A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- 12 A shill bidder at an auction. UK, obsolete, slang
- 1 To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue. UK, dialectal, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English settere, equivalent to set + -er. Compare West Frisian setter, Dutch zetter, German Low German Setter, German Setzer. The hunting dogs are so named because when they scent the game, they set (that is, strike a certain stance).
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