Where vs Setting - What's the difference?
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While on the contrary; although; whereas.
* (William Shakespeare)
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= At or in which place or situation.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To which place or situation.
Wherever.
(legal) In a position, case, etc., in which.
At what place; to what place; what place.
In what situation.
The place in which something happens.
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
As nouns the difference between where and setting
is that where is the place in which something happens while setting is the time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.As a conjunction where
is while on the contrary; although; whereas.As an adverb where
is at what place; to what place; what place.As a pronoun where
is the place in which.As a verb setting is
.As an adjective setting is
that disappears below the horizon.where
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- And flight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
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.}}
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.}}
Adverb
(-)- Where are you?
- Where are you going?
- Where did you come from?
- Where would we be without our parents?
Noun
(-)- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where , the why and the how.
- Finding the nymph asleep in secret where . — Spenser.
Derived terms
* anywhere * elsewhere * everywhere * every which where * whereabouts * whereafter * whereagainst * wherealong * whereas * whereat * whereby * wherefore * wherefrom * wherein * whereinto * where it's at * whereness * wherenot * whereon * whereof * whereover * wheresoever * wherethan * wherethrough * whereto * wheretoward * whereunder * whereuntil * whereunto * whereupon * wherever * wherewith * wherewithin * wherewithalStatistics
*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.