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Setter vs Seter - What's the difference?

setter | seter |

As nouns the difference between setter and seter

is that setter is one who sets something, especially a typesetter while seter is a summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.

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)
  • One who sets something, especially a typesetter
    • 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.
  • A long-haired breed of gundog ().
    • She has a spaniel and a red setter .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=7/2 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.}}
  • (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 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. }}
  • One who hunts victims for sharpers.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • One who adapts words to music in composition.
  • A shallow seggar for porcelain.
    • (Ure)
    Derived terms
    * English setter * Gordon setter * Irish red and white setter * Irish setter * red setter
    Synonyms
    * (computing) mutator
    See also
    * getter
    References
    * OED2

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    seter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.
  • * 1964 , Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway , page 114:
    • Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
  • * 1968 , Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , page 248:
    • In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters' in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the ' seters .
  • * 2002 , Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present , page 131:
    • For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
  • * (seeCites)
    • ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun