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Set can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
set used as a verb:
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- To put (something) down, to rest.
"Set the tray there." - To determine or settle.
"to set the rent" - To adjust.
"I set the alarm at 6 a.m." - To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery.
"Please set the table for our guests." - To introduce or describe.
"I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene." - To locate, to backdrop (a play, etc).
"He says he will set his next film in France." - To compile, to make (a crossword).
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To arrange (type).
"It was a complex page, but he set it quickly." - To devise and assign (work) to.
"The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot." - to sit.
"He set down on the stool in the corner of the room." - To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To solidify.
"The glue sets in 4 minutes." - Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as it rotates.
"The moon sets at 8:00 PM tonight." - To defeat a contract.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
set used as a noun:
- A matching collection of similar things.
"a set of tables" - A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
"a set of tools" - An object made up several parts
"a set of steps" - A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- Set theory.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
"the country set" - A punch for setting nails in wood.
"nail set" - The scenery for a film or play.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves; a radio or television.
"television set" - Three of a kind in poker. In community card games, the term is usually reserved for a situation in which a pair in a player's hand is matched by a single card on the board. Compare with trips.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- A sett; a hole made and lived in by a badger.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
"He plays the set on Saturdays." - A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
set used as an adjective:
- Ready, prepared.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
"set on getting to his destination" - Prearranged.
"a set menu" - Fixed in one's opinion.
"I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them." - Fixed in a certain style.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is set?
- Verb usage: Set the tray there.
- Verb usage: to set the rent
- Verb usage: I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
- Verb usage: Please set the table for our guests.
- Verb usage: I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
- Verb usage: He says he will set his next film in France.
- Verb usage: It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
- Verb usage: The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
- Verb usage: He set down on the stool in the corner of the room.
- Verb usage: The glue sets in 4 minutes.
- Verb usage: The moon sets at 8:00 PM tonight.
- Noun usage: a set of tables
- Noun usage: a set of tools
- Noun usage: a set of steps
- Noun usage: the country set
- Noun usage: nail set
- Noun usage: television set
- Noun usage: He plays the set on Saturdays.
- Adjective usage: set on getting to his destination
- Adjective usage: a set menu
- Adjective usage: I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of set are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of set, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).