setting
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
setting
- present participle and gerund of set
Noun edit
setting (plural settings)
- 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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 28:17:
- 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
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
time, place, circumstance
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hardening
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of a heavenly body: disappearance below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates
jewelry
placement of a control
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music
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Adjective edit
setting (comparative more setting, superlative most setting)
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
that disappears below the horizon
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English setting.
Noun edit
setting f or m (definite singular settinga or settingen, indefinite plural settinger, definite plural settingene)
References edit
- “setting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
setting f (definite singular settinga, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)
- the act of putting, setting (something somewhere)
- the manner of putting, setting (something somewhere)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English setting.
Noun edit
setting m (definite singular settingen, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)
References edit
- “setting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.