Setter vs Netter - What's the difference?
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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)
One who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
* 1891 , Samuel Wilmot, “Salmon Fisheries of the Bay des Chaleurs”, in Part II of Supplement No. 1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries 1890 , Brown Chamberlin (publisher),
* 2004 , Cristiana S. Seixas and Fikret Berkes, “Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil”, chapter eight of Leontine E. Visser (editor), Challenging Coasts: Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development , Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 978-90-5356-682-4,
An Internet user.
* 2005 , David T. Hill, Krishna Sen, The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy (page 61)
As nouns the difference between setter and netter
is that setter is one who sets something, especially a typesetter while netter is one who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.As a verb setter
is (uk|dialect|transitive) 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 .
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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
* * * ----netter
English
Noun
(en noun)page 30:
- In England and in Scotland, after centuries of experience, the netter has been so restricted in the use of the destructive engines which were formerly in use there that at the present time many of the more important rivers continue to uphold almost their original standard of fish,—thus actually benefiting the tidal fisherman, the rivers' proprietors, and all concerned.
page 190:
- The conflict between gill-netters' and cast-'''netters''' has existed at least since the 1940s. The conflict is about resource allocation since gill-' netters , who are only a few in number, capture much more resources with less human effort than the large majority of fishers who use cast nets.
- The vast majority of Indonesian netters use landlines, either from home or office, or from a public Internet access point.