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Synonyms for setting

Grammar : Noun
Spell : set-ing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛt ɪŋ

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Définition of setting

Origin :
  • late 14c., "fact or action of setting (something), putting, placing, planting," verbal noun from set (v.).
  • Meaning "place, location, site" is late 14c. Surgical sense, with reference to broken bones, etc., is from early 15c. In reference to heavenly bodies, from c.1400. Also in Middle English "act of creation; thing created" (c.1400). In reference to mounts for jewels, etc. from 1815; meaning "background, history, environment" is attested from 1841.
  • noun scene, background
Example sentences :
  • All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with indifference the line of unpeopled rocks.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • And I was chidden for setting you against complying with your father's will.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • To my mind the two have no more than the relation of the words of a song and the music of its setting.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • What is known as church-affiliation, the music of the setting, I am not concerned with.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • We see the same idea also in the rising and setting sun and moon.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various
  • To do violence to any one is a strange way of setting about inspiring love.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • On the right is a god who seems to be setting free a bird from his right hand.
  • Extract from : « The Babylonian Legends of the Creation » by British Museum
  • The professor was setting back there at his end, looking glum.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • The rays of the setting sun brought out the drabness of her.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • And so he did, twisting it up and setting it to the flame of the candle.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

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