Set vs Produce - What's the difference?
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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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, title= To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
(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
* Shakespeare
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.
* 1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , page 22.
(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.
To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
* Macaulay
* 1856 , , Volume 3,
* 1999 , Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification , Volume 3, CSIRO Publishing,
* 2000 , Jane McGary, Environment: Australia and New Zealand'', Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension ,
* 2006 , Office of the United States Trade Representative, National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: 2006 ,
* 2006 November 21, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): Parliamentary Debates ,
* 2008 , Primary Australian History: Book F , R.I.C. Publications,
* 2010', Carlos Laurenço, Hermine K. Wöhri, ''Measuring Dimuons '''Produced in Proton-Nucleus Collisions in the NA60 Experiment at the SPS'', Helmut Satz, Sourav Sarkar, Bikash Sinha (editors) , ''The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Introductory Lectures , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 785,
To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
* 1810 , Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings: volume 8
* 2006 , Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation ,
* 2007 , Transit Cooperative Research Program TRCP Report 86: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers ,
(media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
* 1982 January 30, Imported Producers Spread Early Sound to Global Markets'', '' ,
* 2001 , Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films ,
* 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 ,
(mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
(obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
Items produced.
Amount produced.
Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
* 1852 , F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields ,
* 1861 , William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition ,
* 1999 , Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990 ,
* 2008 , Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices ,
Offspring.
(Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
Set is a related term of produce.
As a numeral set
is seven.As a verb produce is
to yield, make or manufacture; to generate.As a noun produce is
items produced.set
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.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=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 or setting .}}
- 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.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set 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.}}
- 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
(en adjective)Ian Sample
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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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Synonyms
* (close of the day) dusk, eve, evening, sundown, sunset * (general movement) direction, drift, heading, motion, movement, path, tendency, trend * (matching collection of similar things) suite * set theory * club, coterie * (scenery) scenery * (performance of several musical pieces) gig, session * (drum kit) drums, drum kit, drum set * (three of a kind) three of a kindHypernyms
* (set theory) multiset, bagDerived terms
* box set * bump set * closed set * country set * crystal set * drop set * empty set * filmset * * jet set * Mandelbrot set * open set * set of pipes * set piece * set point * set theory * subset * twinset * instruction setVerb
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English
Verb
(produc)- the greatest jurist his country had produced
page 510,
- At Rome the news from Ireland produced a sensation of a very different kind.
page 72,
- Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants.
page 567,
- For example, Mary Lou Morris, past president of the Environment Institute of Australia, has been her country?s delegate to a number of global environmental conferences and helped to produce the Australian National Heritage Charter.
page 29,
- The Agreement criminalizes end-user piracy and requires Australia to authorize the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of counterfeit and pirated goods and the equipment used to produce them.
page 3805,
- We discovered that they produce more than 2,000 megawatts from wind energy.
page 43,
- He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.
page 280,
- Besides, some of the rejected dimuons were produced in collisions downstream of the target region (in the beam dump or in the hadron absorber, for instance).
- It was necessary for the prisoner to produce a witness to prove his innocency.
page 262,
- LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an antiMormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.
page 22,
- The plaintiff alleges that he was unlawfully detained at the airport by state troopers and threatened with arrest unless he produced identification and his travel documents.
page M-16,
- David Tickle flew in to Melbourne to produce the quad-platinum (in Australia) LP “True Colors” and the triple gold single “I Got You”— both of which shot the band to international prominence.
page 56,
- In 1940, he co-wrote the script for Broken Strings , an independently produced film in which he starred as a concert violinist.
page 570,
- This beautifully produced film was introduced in 2003.
- to produce a side of a triangle
- to produce a man's life to threescore
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Noun
(-)page 151,
- All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
page 54,
- Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
page 291,
- While it is true that New Zealand?s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
page 230,
- A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
Usage notes
Frequently used in the collocation , since c. 1960, specifically in the sense “fruits and vegetables”.Why do you call it “the produce aisle”?