set

I verb

1)

Beth set the bag on the table

Syn:

put (down), place, lay, deposit, position, settle, leave, stand, plant, posit; informal stick, dump, park, plunk

2)

the cottage is set on a hill

Syn:

be situated, be located, lie, stand, be sited, be perched

3)

the fence is set in concrete

Syn:

fix, embed, insert; mount

4)

a ring set with precious stones

Syn:

adorn, ornament, decorate, embellish; literary bejewel

5)

I'll go and set the table

Syn:

lay, prepare, arrange

6)

we set them some easy tasks

Syn:

assign, allocate, give, allot, prescribe

7)

just set your mind to it

Syn:

apply, address, direct, aim, turn, focus, concentrate

8)

they set a date for the election

Syn:

decide on, select, choose, arrange, schedule; fix (on), settle on, determine, designate, name, appoint, specify, stipulate

9)

he set his horse toward her

Syn:

direct, steer, orient, orientate, point, aim, train

10)

his jump set a national record

Syn:

establish, create, institute

11)

he set his watch

Syn:

adjust, regulate, synchronize; calibrate; put right, correct; program, activate, turn on

12)

the adhesive will set in an hour

Syn:

solidify, harden, stiffen, thicken, jell, cake, congeal, coagulate, clot; freeze, crystallize

Ant:

melt

13)

the sun was setting

Syn:

go down, sink, dip; vanish, disappear

Ant:

rise

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- set about

- set against

- set apart

- set aside

- set back

- set down

- set forth

- set free

- set in

- set off

- set on

- set upon

- set one's heart on

- set out

- set up

II noun

1)

a set of color postcards

Syn:

group, collection, series; assortment, selection, compendium, batch, number; arrangement, array

2)

the literary set

Syn:

clique, coterie, circle, crowd, group, crew, band, company, ring, camp, fraternity, school, faction, league; informal gang, bunch

3)

a chemistry set

Syn:

kit, apparatus, equipment, outfit

4)

a set of china

Syn:

service

5)

the set of his shoulders

Syn:

posture, position, cast, attitude; bearing, carriage

6)

a set for the play

Syn:

scenery, setting, backdrop, flats; mise en scène

7)

the band played two sets

Syn:

session, time; stretch, bout, round

III adjective

1)

a set routine

Syn:

fixed, established, predetermined, hard and fast, prearranged, prescribed, specified, defined; unvarying, unchanging, invariable, unvaried, rigid, inflexible, cast-iron, strict, ironclad, settled, predictable; routine, standard, customary, regular, usual, habitual, accustomed, wonted

Ant:

variable, changing

2)

she had set ideas

Syn:

inflexible, rigid, fixed, firm, deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, entrenched

Ant:

flexible

3)

he had a set speech for such occasions

Syn:

stock, standard, routine, rehearsed, well-worn, formulaic, conventional

Ant:

original, fresh

4)

I was all set for the evening

Syn:

ready, prepared, organized, equipped, primed; informal geared up, psyched up

Ant:

unprepared

5)

he's set on marrying her

Syn:

determined to, intent on, bent on, hell-bent on, resolute about, insistent about

Ant:

uncertain

6)

you were dead set against the idea

Syn:

opposed to, averse to, hostile to, resistant to, antipathetic to, unsympathetic to; informal anti