Setter vs Settee - What's the difference?
setter | settee |
One who sets something, especially a typesetter
A long-haired breed of gundog ().
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=The Norwich Victims
, chapter=7/2 (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting]], or [[pass, passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
(computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
(sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 29
, author=Kevin Mitchell
, title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau
, work=the Guardian
One who hunts victims for sharpers.
One who adapts words to music in composition.
A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
(Webster 1913)
A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.
As nouns the difference between setter and settee
is that setter is one who sets something, especially a typesetter while settee is a long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.As a verb setter
is to cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.setter
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
- She has a spaniel and a red setter .
citation, passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
citation, page= , passage=It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses. }}
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Derived terms
* English setter * Gordon setter * Irish red and white setter * Irish setter * red setterSynonyms
* (computing) mutatorSee also
* getterReferences
* OED2Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* * * ----settee
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees . There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.