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set·ting (set′iŋ)

noun

  1. the act of one that sets
  2. the position or adjustment of something, as a dial, that has been set
  3. a thing in or upon which something is set; specif., the backing for a gem or gems, or the style or shape of this a marquise setting
  4. the time, place, environment, and surrounding circumstances of an event, story, play, etc.
  5. actual physical surroundings or scenery whether real or, as on a stage, artificial
  6. the music or the composing of music for a set of words, as a poem
  7. the eggs in the nest of a setting hen
  8. place setting

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setting Synonyms

setting

n.

environment, surroundings, ambience, mounting, backdrop, frame, framework, background, context, perspective, horizon, shadow, shade, distance, mise en scene (French).

Antonyms front*, foreground*, focus.


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setting Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • adjust: You will need to get your administrator to adjust the settings of your VLE to allow Content Packages of up to 100 megabytes.

Preposition: for

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Adjective modifier

  • idyllic: Craig Park enjoys an idyllic rural setting in unspoiled countryside.

Modifies a noun

  • checkbox: Put a tick in the Automatically detect settings checkbox, but the others must all be unchecked.

Noun used with modifier

  • default: Selected tracks will become the default setting according to a DVD player's language setup.
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setting quotes

   When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

-Rosso, Medardo

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his wayattended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

-Wordsworth,William

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