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(verb) set to a certain position; "set clocks or instruments" |
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Related Words: adjust, advance, reset, set, set ahead |
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(verb) put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state; "set the house afire" |
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Related Words: alter, change, keynote, pitch |
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(noun) several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press" |
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Synonyms: exercise set |
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Related Words: exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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(noun) the act of putting something in position; "he gave a final set to his hat" |
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Related Words: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning, situating |
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(verb) establish as the highest level or best performance: "set a record" |
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Synonyms: mark |
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Related Words: establish, lay down, make |
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(verb) give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor |
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Related Words: hone |
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(verb) insert (a nail below the surface) |
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Synonyms: countersink |
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Related Words: bury, sink |
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(verb) fix in a border, as of precious stones |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) apply or start; "set fire to a building" |
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Related Words: initiate, originate, start |
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(verb) locate; "The film is set in Africa" |
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Synonyms: localize, place |
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Related Words: present, stage |
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(verb) disappear beyond the horizon; of celestial bodies such as the sun and the moon |
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Synonyms: go down, go under |
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Related Words: come down, descend, fall, go down |
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Antonyms: rise |
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(satellite adjective) being below the horizon; "the moon is set" |
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(noun) any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals; "the early sets ran on storage batteries" |
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Related Words: electronic equipment, receiver, receiving system, transmitter |
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(noun) (psychology) a temporary readiness to respond in a particular way; "the subjects' set led them to solve problems the familiar way and to overlook the simpler solution"; "his instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set" |
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Synonyms: readiness |
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Related Words: cognitive state, state of mind |
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(noun) the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon; "before the set of sun" |
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Related Words: descent |
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(noun) a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used: "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs" |
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Related Words: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, brace, bracket, chess set, choir, collection, conjugation, consort, core, core group, declension, field, intersection, join, nucleus, octet, octette, pair, product, quadruplet, quartet, quartette, quintet, quintette, score, septet, septette, sestet, sextet, sextette, singleton, suite, sum, threescore, triad, trio, triplet, union |
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(noun) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" |
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Related Words: abstraction, domain, field, group, intersection, interval, mathematical group, null set, root, solution, space, subset, topological space |
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(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot" |
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Synonyms: band, circle, lot |
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Related Words: Four Hundred, camp, clique, cohort, company, confederacy, conspiracy, coterie, horsey set, horsy set, ingroup, inner circle, jet set, pack, party, social group |
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(noun) evil beast-headed god with high square ears and a long snout; brother and murder of Osiris |
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Synonyms: Seth |
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Related Words: Egyptian deity |
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(noun) a unit of play in tennis or squash; "they played two sets of tennis after dinner" |
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Related Words: period of play, play, playing period |
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(verb) bear fruit, of plants |
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Synonyms: fructify |
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Related Words: multiply, procreate, reproduce |
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(verb) alter slightly, esp. to achieve accuracy; regulate; "Adjust the clock, please" |
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Synonyms: adjust |
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Related Words: align, attune, calibrate, citify, coordinate, correct, decompress, depressurize, fine-tune, fit, focus, graduate, harmonize, justify, linearize, lube, lubricate, match, modulate, oil, plumb, pressurize, proportion, readjust, reconcile, regulate, reset, right, set, sharpen, sync, synchronize, temper, time, tune, tune up, zero, zero in |
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(verb) equip with sails, masts, etc.; of ships |
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Synonyms: rig, set up |
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Related Words: equip, fit, fit out, outfit |
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(verb) become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme" |
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Synonyms: congeal, jell |
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Related Words: solidify |
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(verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively; "set the rules" |
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Synonyms: determine |
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Related Words: assess, charge, date, detect, format, identify, initialize, place, price, tax, value |
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(verb) decide upon, as of variables in math |
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Synonyms: determine, fix, specify |
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Related Words: choose, define, name, pick out, quantify, reset, select, take |
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(verb) urge a dog to attack someone |
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Synonyms: sic |
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Related Words: assail, assault, attack, set on |
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(verb) put into a certain place: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the mising children"; also with abstract objects and locations: "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
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Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, put |
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Related Words: appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deposit, displace, docket, ensconce, fix, garner, glycerolize, ground, instal, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, lay, lay over, lean, load, lose, marshal, middle, mislay, misplace, move, parallelize, park, perch, pillow, pitch, place down, place upright, plant, poise, pose, posit, position, put back, put down, put forward, put in, rack up, recess, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, seed, set, set down, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, sign, sit, sit down, situate, sough, sow, space, stand, stand up, stick, store, stow, superimpose, tee, tee up, throw |
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(verb) put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden" |
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Synonyms: plant |
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Related Words: afforest, checkrow, dibble, forest, lay, place, pose, position, puddle, put, replant, set |
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(satellite adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) |
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Synonyms: hardened |
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(verb) adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music" |
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Synonyms: arrange |
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Related Words: adapt, compose, prearrange, put, tabularise, tabularize, tabulate, transcribe, transpose, write |
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(satellite adjective) fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" |
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Synonyms: fixed, rigid |
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(satellite adjective) set down according to a plan:"a carefully laid table with places set for four people"; "stones laid in a pattern" |
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Synonyms: laid |
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(noun) the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production; "the sets were meticulously authentic" |
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Synonyms: stage set |
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Related Words: representation, scene, scenery |
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(noun) a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious" |
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Synonyms: bent |
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Related Words: disposition, inclination, tendency |
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(verb) of hair |
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Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress |
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Related Words: bob, groom, neaten, wave |
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(verb) estimate: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." |
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Synonyms: place, put |
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Related Words: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(satellite adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time" |
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Synonyms: fit, primed |
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(satellite adjective) situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally located urban land"; "strategically placed artillery"; "a house set on a hilltop"; "nicely situated on a quiet riverbank" |
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Synonyms: located, placed, situated |
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(satellite adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority; "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching" |
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Synonyms: determined, dictated |
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(noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" |
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Synonyms: hardening, solidification, solidifying |
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Related Words: action, activity, natural action, natural process |
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(verb) make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war" |
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Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set up |
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Related Words: alter, brace, change, crop, cultivate, fix, lay out, mount, poise, precondition, prime, set up, socialize, summerize, winterize, work |
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