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Wetting vs Setting - What's the difference?

wetting | setting |

As verbs the difference between wetting and setting

is that wetting is present participle of lang=en while setting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between wetting and setting

is that wetting is the act of making something wet while setting is the time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

As adjectives the difference between wetting and setting

is that wetting is that makes (something) wet while setting is that disappears below the horizon.

wetting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making something wet.
  • * 1838 , George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c. (page 28)
  • It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings
  • The act of accidental urination on or in something.
  • Derived terms

    * bedwetting

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That makes (something) wet.
  • Derived terms

    * wetting agent

    setting

    Verb

    (head)
  • 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
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that disappears below the horizon
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