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Backset vs Setback - What's the difference?

backset | setback |

As nouns the difference between backset and setback

is that backset is a check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback while setback is an obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.

As a verb backset

is to plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

backset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
  • Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
  • * Harper's Magazine
    • Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.

    Verb

  • (US, Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
    • (Webster 1913)

    setback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
    • After some initial setbacks , the expedition went safely on its way.
  • (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
  • (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
    • Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
  • (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
  • A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

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