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Setting (root: set)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Setting has 7 senses

setting(n = noun.location) scene - the context and environment in which something is set; "the perfect setting for a ghost story"

is a kind of environment, environs, surround, surroundings

has particulars: scenario

setting(n = noun.state) background, scope - the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"

is a kind of environment

has particulars: canvas, canvass, show window, showcase

setting(n = noun.artifact) mise en scene, stage setting - arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted; Array

has parts: flat, prop, property, set, stage set

is a kind of stage

setting(n = noun.state) circumstance, context - the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"

has particulars: conditions, conditions

is a kind of environment

setting(n = noun.location) Array - the physical position of something; "he changed the setting on the thermostat"

is a kind of

place

position

Derived forms verb set₈, verb set₁

setting(n = noun.artifact) place setting - a table service for one person; "a place setting of sterling flatware"

is a kind of service, table service

Derived form verb set₂₂

setting(n = noun.artifact) mount - a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; "the diamond was in a plain gold mount"

is a kind of mounting

has particulars: pave

Derived form verb set₆

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Setting, n.

The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current. [1913 Webster]
The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter. Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Something set in, or inserted. [1913 Webster]
"Thou shalt set in it settings of stones." [1913 Webster]
That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin. [1913 Webster]
the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel. [PJC]

Setting coat (Arch.), the finishing or last coat of plastering on walls or ceilings. -- Setting dog, a setter. See Setter, n., 2. -- Setting pole, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water. -- Setting rule. (Print.) A composing rule.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Setting, n.
1 the position or manner in which a thing is set.
2 the immediate surroundings (of a house etc.).
3 the surroundings of any object regarded as its framework; the environment of a thing.
4 the place and time, scenery, etc., of a story, drama, etc.
5 a frame in which a jewel is set.
6 the music to which words of a poem, song, etc., are set.
7 a set of cutlery and other accessories for one person at a table.
8 the way in which or level at which a machine is set to operate.

Idiom

setting lotion lotion used to prepare the hair for being set.

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THESAURUS

Setting

Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, adaptation, agora, amphitheater, arena, arrangement, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, athletic field, auditorium, back, backdrop, background, background detail, backing, bear garden, bearing, bowl, boxing ring, broadcast, broadcasting, bull ring, bushing, calcification, callusing, campus, canvas, case hardening, chassis, circus, clabbering, clotting, coagulation, cockpit, cold-type typesetting, coliseum, collapsing, colosseum, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, concretion, congealment, congelation, context, cornification, course, crystallization, curdling, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decorative composition, decorative style, decurrent, descendant, descending, design, detail, dissemination, distance, down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, dropping, dummy, environment, environs, falling, field, figure, firming, floor, foil, foreground detail, form, forum, fossilization, frame, furniture, galley chase, gelatination, gelatinization, gelling, granulation, ground, gym, gymnasium, habitat, hall, hardening, harmonization, hinterland, hippodrome, home, hornification, hot-metal typesetting, imposition, induration, infrastructure, insemination, inspissation, instrumentation, intonation, jellification, jelling, jellying, justification, lapidification, layout, line of type, lists, lithification, locale, location, marketplace, mat, milieu, mise-en-scene, modulation, motif, mount, mounting, national style, on the descendant, on the downgrade, open forum, orchestration, ornamental motif, ossification, palaestra, parade ground, pattern, period style, petrifaction, petrification, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, phrasing, pit, place, placement, planting, platform, plummeting, plunging, precinct, preparation, prize ring, public square, purlieu, quoin, range, rear, reforestation, repeated figure, resetting, resolution, retimbering, ring, sagging, scene, scene of action, scenery, sclerosis, seeding, semination, set, sinking, site, skeleton, slug, solidification, solution, sowing, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, steeling, stiffening, style, submerging, subsiding, surroundings, suspension, tempering, terrain, theater, theme, thickening, tilting ground, tiltyard, tone painting, tottering, touch, toughening, transcription, transplantation, tumbledown, typesetting, typesetting machine, underframe, vitrifaction, vitrification, walk, wrestling ring

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