Set

Set the tray there.

He helped his mother set the table for lunch.

I have set my heart on running the marathon.

The Lord set a mark upon Cain.

The Lord thy God will set thee on high.

I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.

Every incident sets him thinking.

to set a coach in the mud

to set the rent

I set the alarm at 6 a.m.

I set the alarm for 6 a.m.

Please set the table for our guests.

I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.

An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

He says he will set his next film in France.

Her debut novel is set during the U.S. Civil War.

This crossword was set by Araucaria.

It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.

The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.

The glue sets in five minutes.

to set milk for cheese

The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.

The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton

to set seed

Many fruit trees will only flower and set fruit following a cold winter.

In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.

He sets in that chair all day.

Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.

And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.

Well, we rolled up Interstate 44 Like a rocket-sled on rails. We tore up all of our swindle sheets And left 'em settin' on the scales.

The dog sets the bird.

Your dog sets well.

If he set industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.

That I might sing it (Madam) to a tune: Giue me a Note, your Ladiship can set

to set pear trees in an orchard

We saw him with eight men setting potatoes within a week of mid-summer.

At Eastertime one year, she helped him to set potatoes.

The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.

Set to partners! was the next instruction from the caller.

to set a precious stone in a border of metal

to set glass in a sash

And him too rich a jewel to be set / In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.

to set (that is, to hone) a razor

to set a saw

to set the sails of a ship

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to set a broken bone

If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.

I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.

High on their heads, with jewels richly set, / Each lady wore a radiant coronet.

pastoral dales thin set with modern farms

Be you contented, wearing now the garland, / To have a son set your decrees at naught.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

to set a good example

It sets him ill.

To set a hen.

television set

the set of a spring

The wings were bent or set permanently 2 to 3 inches upward at the wingtips; however, the set was within the manufacturer's allowable tolerances.

the set of a coat

So much of our culture, hidden by necessity for so long, involves subtle codes and signals: the set of her shoulders, the sway of his hips.

We will in France, by God's grace, play a set / Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.

That was but civil war, an equal set.

Thenceforth the Dowager, with a light and careless humour, often recounted to her particular acquaintance how, after a hard trial, she had found it impossible to know those people who belonged to Henry’s wife, and who had made that desperate set to catch him.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!

set on getting to his destination

And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.

The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.

I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them.

The weary sun hath made a golden set.

And a rose-bush leans upon, / Thou that faintly smilest still, / As a Naiad in a well, / Looking at the set of day, […]

Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief.

He put his eye to the alidade. “I thought so! Zero five four and that's allowing nothing for set and drift along the line of bearing. We're inside the departure point now[…]”

a set of tables

a set of tools

a set of steps

the country set

That he took perfumed baths is a truth; and he used to say that he took them after meeting certain men of a very low set in hall.

“Good gracious, child, you didn't join the Theosophists and kiss Buddha's big toe, did you ? I tried to get into their set once, but they cast me out for a sceptic — without a chance of improving my poor little mind, too.”

They were very private people, though they did have their circle of friends at Bilignin. They had little or no association with the Natalie Barney set, in their eyes much too frivolous.

Meronym: reps

This is the fourth set of benchpresses.

The old practitioners we sometimes still see, though in far fewer numbers: still working out too hard, a lost expression on their faces as they rest between sets, as if unable to snap out of the broken promise.

You heard “oh, Jeremy Corbyn” everywhere: at the silent disco, during Radiohead’s Friday night headlining set, midway through the Other stage appearance by rapper Stormzy, who gamely joined in.

He plays the set on Saturdays.

Looking at pupil attainment, the study found that students with the same Key Stage 3 scores could have their GCSE grade raised or lowered by up to half a grade as a result of being placed in a higher or lower set.

In setted classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but identical—in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.

At Amber Hill, setting was a high-profile concept, and the students were frequently reminded of the set to which they belonged.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.