Talk:set
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This is going to be a big one. There are well over a hundred definitions of this word. Care needs to be taken to ensure that translations are associated with the correct senses.
Someone commented out this noun sense as:
not a noun sense: # device used to hold things (aset screw)
God I hate comments.DAVilla07:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
(music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces. This term also applies very similarly to stand-up comedy (and possibly to the performing arts in general). So I'm wondering which is the best option of the following:
OR
?Thanks in advance for any (polite) feedback. (I'm still new at wiktionary.)--Tyranny Sue06:44, 4 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
Should 'sett' be added to the 'See also' list? And/or listed as a related term list? And/or should it be an Alternative spelling (as 'set' appears on the 'sett' entry)? I'm still too new to Wiktionary to be sure of the rules. --Tyranny Sue07:20, 4 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
{{homophones}} in pronunciation. I hope users look there.DCDuringTALK20:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)ReplyEtymology 1, noun, entry #12 is:
Etymology 2, noun, entries #5, #6, and #7 are:
So, did the same word with the same spelling and the same meaning come from two different places, or should this definition be deleted from which etymology?Gronky (talk)16:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
@Jamesjiao,Donnanz, aresit andset really homophones in New Zealand English? I’m aware that the vowel ofDRESS is very high in NZE, but it doesn’t merge withKIT, does it? —Ungoliant(falai)21:26, 22 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
@Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV: Not in my experience, but I haven't lived in NZ since 1971. I'm a South Islander, but it could happen in the north. It doesn't say that they are homophones atsit, only atset.DonnanZ (talk)21:51, 22 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
We have "the initial or basic formation of dancers". Chambers 1908 has two further (or overlapping) senses along these lines: "the couples that take part in a square dance" and "the movements in a country-dance or quadrille".Equinox◑20:42, 14 September 2019 (UTC)Reply
Doesget set (for) deserve an entry? --Backinstadiums (talk)13:43, 31 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
2. conforming to an established, often conventional formulaHe rattled off a set speech2. assigned for students to studya set text Microsoft® Encarta® 2009
--Backinstadiums (talk)17:52, 7 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Isn't it used as an adjective inAt Even, When the Sun was Set ? --Backinstadiums (talk)18:36, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Etymology 4 of the English section needs a bit of tending to. I'm mainly referring to the lists of linked terms; This entry already lists a lot of semantically related terms (though a good number of terms you'd expect to see listed are still missing too,) and these lists are quite disorganized. The set theoretical sense of the word in particular is a mess. Seen as this sense pertains to the fundamental concept at the core of set theory and the greater foundations of mathematics as a whole, there's alot of semantic relatives and terms derived specifically from this sense of the word. Yet this page listed only eight of them, all as hypernyms, no less, even though the majority of the terms listed were hyponyms, and one of them wasn't even a semantic relative at all! I've renamed that section as "See also" since. You'd think someone would have created a thesaurus page by now, but this isn't the case, thoughposet does have athesaurus page. So I'll be tending to that shortly. If anyone has any tips or recommendations about the specifics of this soon-to-be thesaurus page, I'm all ears. And it might be a good idea to look at other similarly lengthy pages that may be suffering from similar issues.110521sgl (talk)08:55, 5 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
The translations glosses include "bend teeth of a saw" and indeed translations are coherent with this gloss, but I cannot see any meaning fitting this gloss.Dodecaplex (talk)16:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply