Noun

(en noun)

The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

The act of setting.

the setting of the sun

the setting , or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris

A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.

A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.

the volume setting on a television

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.

Hunting with a setter.

Something set in, or inserted.

* Bible, Exodus xxviii. 17

Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.

A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).

*Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem

*Bach's setting of the Magnificat

Noun

(head)

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}