Setting vs When - What's the difference?
setting | when |
The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
The act of setting.
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 act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
Hunting with a setter.
Something set in, or inserted.
* Bible, Exodus xxviii. 17
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
(interrogative) (Used to introduce questions about time).
(Used to introduce indirect questions about time).
At an earlier and less prosperous time.
At what time.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when , of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
At such time as.
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At a time in the past.
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, title= (interrogative) What time; which time
The time.
As nouns the difference between setting and when
is that setting is the time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario while when is the time.As a verb setting
is .As an adjective setting
is that disappears below the horizon.As an adverb when is
(interrogative) (used to introduce questions about time).As a conjunction when is
at what time.As a pronoun when is
(interrogative) what time; which time.As an interjection when is
that's enough,.setting
English
(wikipedia setting)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the setting of the sun
- the setting , or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
- the volume setting on a television
- Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
Anagrams
*when
English
(wikipedia when)Adverb
(-)- When will they arrive ?
- Do you know when they arrived?
- Do you know when they will arrive?
- Do you know when they arrive?
- He's mister high and mighty now, but I remember him when .
Conjunction
(missing senses) (English Conjunctions)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=The Baggies had offered little threat until the 28th minute, but when their first chance came it was a clear one.}}
Derived terms
* whenwePronoun
(English Pronouns)- Since when do I need your permission?
Noun
(en noun)- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when , the where, the why and the how .