Setting

What do we mean by setting?

The position, direction, or way in which something, such as an automatic control, is set. noun

The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background. noun

The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place. noun

A composition written or arranged to fit a text, such as a poetical work. noun

A mounting, as for a jewel. noun

A place setting. noun

A set of eggs in a hen's nest. noun

The temporary station of a portable sawmill, yarding-engine, or other machine used in logging. noun

A wash of gum or other suitable material applied to the surface of a pencil or crayon drawing on paper in order to prevent the work of the artist from being rubbed off; a fixative. noun

The act of one who or that which sets, in any sense. noun

Specifically noun

The adjusting of a telescope to look at an object by means of a setting-circle or otherwise; also, the placing of a micrometer-wire so as to bisect an object. noun

In music, the act, process, or result of fitting or adapting to music, or providing a musical form for: as, a setting of the Psalms. noun

Theat., the mounting of a play or an opera for the stage; the equipment and arrangement of scenery, costumes, and properties; the miseen scène. noun

The adjusting of the teeth of a saw for cutting. noun

The hardening of plaster or cement; also, same as setting-coat. noun

The hardening process of eggs: a term used by fish-culturists. noun

The sinking of the sun or moon or of a star below the horizon. noun

The sport of hunting with a setter-dog. See the quotation under set, intransitive verb, 7. noun

To put (something) down, to rest.

To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.

To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.

To start (a fire).

To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

To determine or settle.

To adjust.

To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.

To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.

To introduce or describe.

To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.

To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).

To prepare (a stage or film set).

To fit (someone) up in a situation.

To arrange (type).

To devise and assign (work) to.

To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.

To solidify.

To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.

Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.

To defeat a contract.

(now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.

To produce after pollination.

(of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.

(Midwestern US) To sit (be in a seated position).

To hunt game with the aid of a setter.

Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.

To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.

To fit music to words.

To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.

(country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.

To place or fix in a setting.

To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.

To extend and bring into position; to spread.

To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.

To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.

To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.

To wager in gambling; to risk.

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

To value; to rate; used with at.

To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.

To suit; to become.

Scenery, background, a base to create something Urban Dictionary

Noun In India, especially Gujarat, especially post-Modi: fixing or rigging the system/game for guaranteed outcomes. Urban Dictionary

To use your other hand to help you wrap all your fingers around the gripper. Urban Dictionary

A term coined by Timothy Leary that describes psychedelic drug experiences. The "set" is the state of mind one brings to the trip, and its factors include, current state of mind, previous drug experiences, and mood. The "setting" refers to the surrounding events and time. These include other people present, location, and time of day. Set and setting shows how using psychedelic drugs under different circumstances results in different trips. Urban Dictionary

To set it is to walk into a bar or party and "own" the place. To be the life of the party. To be the person everyone wants to chat up, buy a drink, or hook up with. Urban Dictionary

On the gang or sub-gang. Urban Dictionary

Gang, specifically a subsidiary gang. For example, Piru Bloods is a set of the Bloods Gang. Urban Dictionary

A term that anyone and everyone can say about anything and everything. Also, a substitute for any desire. Urban Dictionary

Another way of using the term clique. Sets are hand signs or words used to represent your hood, friends, etc. Urban Dictionary

A plan to steal someone, Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to setting:
setting, vetting, sitting, getting, netting, settling, betting, sexting, seating, letting, petting, shetting, retting, wetting, jetting, stetting, metting, sotting, fetting.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word setting:
precept, realms, scrutiny, forgotten, settings, fastest, aside, lap, fantasy, record, forth, fictional, tone.

Words that rhyme with setting:
vetting, abetting, getting, netting, bloodletting, betting, forgetting, fretting, sweating, letting, petting, upsetting, interpreting, regretting, besetting, typesetting, offsetting, begetting, retting, wetting, jetting, whetting, threating, thermosetting, stetting, bletting, petong, fetting, cigarette hung, get hung, get ting, net hung, reseting, set ting, sweat hung, threat hung, wet tongue, yeh ting, yet hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe setting:
clinical, social, natural, institutional, historical, urban, standard, physical, particular, rural, cultural, appropriate, proper, educational, current, goal, outpatient, ideal, acute, original, perfect, beautiful, academic, medical, musical, traditional, organizational, experimental, formal, primary, industrial, environmental, contemporary, geographical, residential, initial, inpatient, domestic, therapeutic, realistic, ambulatory, quick, architectural, informal, romantic, familiar, dramatic, correct, type, pastoral, objective, controlled, tectonic, record, psychiatric, stage, regional, geological, idyllic, typical, like, unique, sun, wider, intimate, lowest, intensive, naturalistic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective setting:
out, theory, essays, organizations, bodies, strategies, institutions, effects, activities, effect, transport, cements, dog, machines, skills, sun, point, measures, the, goals, process, board, specific, pole, potentiometers, hill, questions, dragging, techniques, errors, firms, processes, david, objectives, procedures, table, relations, stage, off, materials.

Consonant match to setting:
sitting, sighting, citing, siting, seating, satang, sating, sooting, suiting, sea tang, seat hung, set ting, sioux tongue, sit ting, su tung, suit hung.

Words that sound like setting:
setting, sitting, seating, sighting, siting, citing, suiting, sating, set in, sooting, sauteing, sotting, sit-in, sit in, setton, satang, sting, sweating, settling, settings, siding, seeding, ceding, sodding, scenting, set on, sea tang, sotong, stetting, satem, sutton, sitten, sitton, settle, wetting, setal, whetting, setl, satan, spitting, satin, stung, sifting, slitting, seton, seta, seaton, smiting, sedam, seddon, setta, sedum, seitan, ceta, satam, soton, sittings, setae, scything, silting, cetin, smutting, seiten, sit on, seten, cyton, sutil, saying, seeing, hitting, selling, sending, seething, seizing, scouting, celling, sawing, setee, scooting, salting, sateen, scatting, sat on, seling, ceto, sative, hutting, seatown, cetic, sainting, cessing, chitting, set to, c-town, sashing, ceti, c town, seising, acetin, scending.