set

  • (verb): To put (something) down, to rest.
  • (verb): To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • (verb): To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • (verb): To start (a fire).
  • (verb): To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • (verb): To determine or settle.
  • (verb): To adjust.
  • (verb): To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • (verb): To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • (verb): To introduce or describe.
  • (verb): To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
  • (verb): To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • (verb): To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • (verb): To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • (verb): To arrange (type).
  • (verb): To devise and assign (work) to.
  • (verb): To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • (verb): To solidify.
  • (verb): To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • (verb): Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • (verb): To defeat a contract.
  • (verb): (now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • (verb): To produce after pollination.
  • (verb): (of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • (verb): (Midwestern US) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • (verb): To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • (verb): Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • (verb): To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
  • (verb): To fit music to words.
  • (verb): To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • (verb): To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • (verb): To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • (verb): (country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
  • (verb): To place or fix in a setting.
  • (verb): To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • (verb): To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • (verb): To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • (verb): To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • (verb): To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • (verb): To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • (verb): To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • (verb): To value; to rate; used with at.
  • (verb): To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • (verb): To suit; to become.
  • Set the tray there.
  • I have set my heart on running the marathon.
  • to set a coach in the mud
  • to set the rent
  • I set the alarm at 6 a.m.