Out vs Set - What's the difference?
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Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
Away from; at a distance.
Away from the inside or the centre.
Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
To the end; completely.
* Bible, Psalms iv. 23
(cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
Away from the inside.
(colloquial) outside
A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
(baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
(cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game such as hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit the batsman's wicket with the ball.
(poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
(dated) A trip out; an outing.
* Charles Dickens, Bleak House
(mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
(printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
To eject; to expel.
* Selden
* Heylin
To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
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To reveal (a secret).
To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted.
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(cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.
To put (something) down, to rest.
To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 15
To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 1
* Bible, Matthew x. 35
* Coleridge
(dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
To determine or settle.
To adjust.
To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
To arrange with dishes and cutlery.
To introduce or describe.
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To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
To prepare (a stage or film set).
To fit (someone) up in a situation.
To arrange (type).
To devise and assign (work) to.
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, title= (volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
To solidify.
To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
(bridge) To defeat a contract.
To begin to move; to go forth.
* c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare),
(of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
* 1906 , Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report
(intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
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(hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
(obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
* Hammond
(ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
* Dryden
(ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
* Old proverb
To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
To place or fix in a setting.
* Dryden
To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
To extend and bring into position; to spread.
To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
(masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
(obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
* Shakespeare
To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
* Dryden
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at .
* Shakespeare
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To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
(Scotland) To suit; to become.
A punch for setting nails in wood.
A device for receiving broadcast radio waves; a radio or television.
A sett; a hole made and lived in by a badger.
(horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
(obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
(piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
(printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
A young oyster when first attached.
Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
A series of, a group of.
Fixed in position.
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Ready, prepared.
Intent, determined (to do something).
Prearranged.
Fixed in one’s opinion.
(of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
A rudimentary fruit.
The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
(literally, and, figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
A matching collection of similar things.
A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
An object made up of several parts.
(set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
Set theory.
A group of people, usually meeting socially.
The scenery for a film or play.
(dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
(exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
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(tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
(volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
(volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
(music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
(music) A drum kit, a drum set.
(UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
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To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
* 2008 , Patricia Murphy, ?Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities
*:In setted' 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, but ''identical —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.
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English
(wikipedia out)Adverb
(en adverb)- Let's eat out tonight
- Leave a message with my secretary if I'm out when you call.
- Keep out !
- The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
- Switch the lights out .
- Put the fire out .
- I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
- Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
- The place was all decked out for the holidays.
Synonyms
* (not at home) awayAntonyms
* (not at home) inDerived terms
(terms derived from out) * all out * bottle out * bowl out * bug out * camp out * chicken out * chill out * churn out * coffeed out * come out of the closet * come out * coming out of one's ears * crank out * down and out * eat one's heart out * figure out * flesh out * foul out * freeze out * geek out * get out * go in one ear and out the other * hang out * hold out * inside out * iron out * kick out * kit out * knock out * lock out * one eighty out * opt out * out of fashion * out of it * out of joint * out of luck * out of one's mind * out of place * out of pocket * out of proportion * out of sorts * out of stock * out of the blue * out of the ordinary * out of the question * out of the way * out of the woods * out of tune * out of wedlock * out of work * out of * out there * out to lunch * out to, out to get someone * out-of-bounds * out-of-print * pig out * put out feelers * put out * rub out * suss out * turn out * wash out * way out * weed out * wipe out * zonk out * zoom outPreposition
(English prepositions)- He threw it out the door.
- It's raining out .
- It's cold out .
Synonyms
* (away from the inside) throughAntonyms
* (away from the inside) inNoun
(en noun)- They wrote the law to give those organizations an out .
- "Us London lawyers don't often get an out ; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."
Verb
(en verb)- a king outed from his country
- The French have been outed of their holds.
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- A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
- Truth will out .
Adjective
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- "Pray, is she out', or is she not? I am puzzled. She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being '''''out'' ; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she ''is ."
- Did you hear? Their newest CD is out !
- It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.
Usage notes
* In cricket, the specific cause or rule under which a batsman is out appears after the word "out", eg, "out hit the ball twice". * In baseball, the cause is expressed as a verb with adverbial "out", eg, "he grounded out".Antonyms
* (disqualified from playing) in, safe * (sense, openly acknowledging one's homosexuality) closetedDerived terms
* all out * eat out * far out * go out * on the outs * out- * out of * outer * outback * outer * outing * outness * outside * outta * outward * outwards * outworn * put out * run out * way outReferences
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8set
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) . * From (etyl) .Verb
- I have set my heart on running the marathon.
- The Lord set a mark upon Cain.
- The Lord thy God will set thee on high.
- I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.
- Every incident sets him thinking.
- to set a coach in the mud
- An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
- This crossword was set by Araucaria.
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- to set milk for cheese
- The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton
- In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.
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- The dog sets the bird.
- Your dog sets well.
- If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
- Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
- (Shakespeare)
- to set pear trees in an orchard
- Sow dry, and set wet.
- (Francis Bacon)
- The current sets''' to the north; the tide '''sets to the windward.
- to set a precious stone in a border of metal
- to set glass in a sash
- And him too rich a jewel to be set / In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.
- to set (that is, to hone) a razor
- to set a saw
- to set the sails of a ship
- to set a psalm
- (Fielding)
- to set a broken bone
- I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.
- High on their heads, with jewels richly set , / Each lady wore a radiant coronet.
- pastoral dales thin set with modern farms
- Be you contented, wearing now the garland, / To have a son set your decrees at naught.
- I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
- to set''' a good example; to '''set lessons to be learned
- It sets him ill.
Derived terms
* reset * set about * set against * set ahead * set apart * set-aside * set a spell * set back * set by * set down * set foot * set forth * set forward * set in * set in motion * set in stone * set off * set on * set on a pedestal * set on fire * set one’s heart on * set out * set straight * set the cat among the pigeons * set the scene * set the table * set to * set upNoun
(wikipedia set) (en noun)- nail set
- television set
- We will in France, by God's grace, play a set / Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
- That was but civil war, an equal set .
- the set of a spring
Adjective
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Synonyms
* determined, intent * (prearranged) dictated, prearranged, predetermined, prescribed, specified * (sense, fixed in one's opinion) fixed, rigidDerived terms
* heavyset, heavy-set * nail set * mindset * moonset * offset * outset * photoset * preset * quickset * set-aside * saw set * set back * setback * set chisel * set for life * sethood * set-in * setlist * setter * set-to * sunset * television set * thickset * trendsetter * typeset * unset * upsetEtymology 2
From (etyl) set, sete, . See (l).Noun
(en noun)- the set of day
- The weary sun hath made a golden set .
- Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief. — Thomas De Quincey.
- a set of tables
- a set of tools
- a set of steps
- the country set
- This is the fourth set of benchpresses.
- He plays the set on Saturdays.
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