An incident which happened about this time willset the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
Old Applegate, in the stern, justset and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
The currentsets to the north; the tidesets to the windward.
(intransitive, 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.
Set to partners! was the next instruction from the caller.
1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), inThe Independent, volume59, number3558, New York: Independent Corporation,page280:
If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.
(masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
Originally,set specifically served as the causative ofsit, and this relationship is still reflected in several of the above senses. However, as with many such pairs, the correspondence has mostly deteriorated, with new senses ofsit no longer being accompanied with a like sense ofset; notably, there are now transitive senses ofsit and intransitive senses ofset. Comparerise andraise, whose senses are almost all intransitive and transitive counterparts, respectively.
1986 March 29,National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Wreckage and Impact Information”, inAircraft Accident Report: China Airlines Boeing 747-SP, N4522V, 300 Nautical Miles Northwest of San Francisco, California, February 19, 1985[1], archived fromthe original on10 July 2022, page12:
The wings were bent or set permanently 2 to 3 inches upward at the wingtips; however, theset was within the manufacturer's allowable tolerances.
Abias of mind; anattitude or pattern of behaviour.
(piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of apile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
Thenceforth the Dowager, with a light and careless humour, often recounted to her particular acquaintance how, after a hard trial, she had found it impossible to know those people who belonged to Henry’s wife, and who had made that desperateset to catch him.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had aset bedtime, researchers found.
The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed aset time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.
FromMiddle Englishset,sete,sette(“that which is set, the act of setting, seat”), fromOld Englishset(“setting, seat, a place where people remain, habitation, camp, entrenchment, a place where animals are kept, stall, fold”) andOld Englishseten(“a set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery, plantation; that which is planted or set; a cultivated place; planting, cultivation; a setting, putting; a stopping; occupied land”), related toOld Englishsettan(“to set”). CompareMiddle Low Germangesette(“a set, suite”),Old Englishgesetl(“assembly”). According to Skeat, in senses denoting a group of things or persons, representing an alteration ofsept, fromOld Frenchsette(“a religious sect”), fromMedieval Latinsecta(“retinue”), fromLatinsecta(“a faction”). Seesect. It is quite possible that the modern word is more of a merger between both, however.
Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the veryset of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief.
1951, Herman Wouk,The Caine Mutiny, page238:
He put his eye to the alidade. “I thought so! Zerofive four and that's allowing nothing forset and drift along the line of bearing. We're inside the departure point now[…]”
A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
aset of tools
An object made up of several parts.
aset of steps
(set theory) A collection of zero or moreobjects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
“Good gracious, child, you didn't join the Theosophists and kiss Buddha's big toe, did you ? I tried to get into theirset once, but they cast me out for a sceptic — without a chance of improving my poor little mind, too.”
1984 December 29, H. W. Seng, “Alice, Gertrude and Sammy Dearest”, inGay Community News, volume12, number25, page13:
They were very private people, though they did have their circle of friends at Bilignin. They had little or no association with the Natalie Barneyset, in their eyes much too frivolous.
1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler,Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page22:
This is the fourthset of benchpresses.
1986, Paul Reed, “Serenity”, in Eric E. Rofes, editor,Gay Life: Leisure, Love, and Living for the Contemporary Gay Male, page11:
The old practitioners we sometimes still see, though in far fewer numbers: still working out too hard, a lost expression on their faces as they rest betweensets, as if unable to snap out of the broken promise.
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, inthe Guardian[2]:
You heard “oh, Jeremy Corbyn” everywhere: at the silent disco, during Radiohead’s Friday night headliningset, midway through the Other stage appearance by rapper Stormzy, who gamely joined in.
(UK,education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
2012 April 26, “Themes: Pupil grouping and organisation of classes”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)[3], Department for Education, archived fromthe original on14 June 2012:
Looking at pupil attainment, the study found that students with the same Key Stage 3 scores could have their GCSE grade raised or lowered by up to half a grade as a result of being placed in a higher or lowerset.
(poker,slang)Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one'shand and the third is on theboard. Comparetrips(“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).[1]
set (third-person singular simple presentsets,present participlesetting,simple past and past participlesetted)
(UK,education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
2008, Patricia Murphy, Robert McCormick,Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities:
Insetted classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet,setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, butidentical—in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.
2002, Jo Boaler,Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches and Their Impact on Student Learning:
At Amber Hill,setting was a high-profile concept, and the students were frequently reminded of the set to which they belonged.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming orsetting.
Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “set”, inLīvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary][4] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
Ernštreits, Valts (ed. in chief); Vāvere, Signis; Viitso, Tiit-Rein; Damberg, Pētõr; Kurpniece, Milda; Kļava, Gunta; Balodis, Uldis; Tuisk, Tuuli; Kūla, Gita; Tomingas, Marili; Soosaar, Sven-Erik; Sedláčková, Anna; Jurgenovskis, Toms (2024), “set”, in “Lībiešu-latviešu-igauņu vārdnīca”, inLivonian language and culture resource platform “Livonian.tech”[5] (in English, Estonian, and Latvian), Riga: University of Latvia Livonian Institute
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page47
