n. 环境, 背景, 布景, 镶嵌, 调整, 沉落, 一副餐具

[计] 设置

[化] 凝结; 凝固; 硬化; 调整; 设定; 装置; 标度; 整定值; 安装

Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s["a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from
the root of E. sit. [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Seize}.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.

{To set abroach}. See {Abroach}. [Obs.] --Shak.

{To set against}, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

{To set agoing}, to cause to move.

{To set apart}, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

{To set a saw}, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

{To set aside}.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under {Aside}.

{To set at defiance}, to defy.

{To set at ease}, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

{To set at naught}, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
``Ye have set at naught all my counsel.'' --Prov. i. 25.


{To set a trap} {To set a snare}, or {To set a gin}, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

{To set at work}, or {To set to work}.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

{To set before}.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

{To set by}.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. ``I set not a
straw by thy dreamings.'' --Chaucer.

{To set by the compass}, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

{To set case}, to suppose; to assume. Cf. {Put case}, under
{Put}, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

{To set down}.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.

Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
(c) To humiliate.

{To set eyes on}, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


{To set fire to}, or {To set on fire}, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

{To set flying} (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

{To set forth}.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.

{To set forward}.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

{To set free}, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

{To set in}, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]

If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.

{To set in order}, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
``The rest will I set in order when I come.'' --1 Cor. xi.
34.

{To set milk}.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

{To set much by} or {To set little by}, to care much, or
little, for.

{To set of}, to value; to set by. [Obs.] ``I set not an haw
of his proverbs.'' --Chaucer.

{To set off}.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
(c) To give a flattering description of.

{To set off against}, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

{To set on} or {To set upon}.
(a) To incite; to instigate. ``Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this.'' --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. `` Set on thy wife to
observe.'' --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

{To set one's cap for}. See under {Cap}, n.

{To set one's self against}, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

{To set one's teeth}, to press them together tightly.

{To set on foot}, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


{To set out}.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] ``Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was.'' --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

{To set over}.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

{To set right}, to correct; to put in order.

{To set sail}. (Naut.) See under {Sail}, n.

{To set store by}, to consider valuable.

{To set the fashion}, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

{To set the teeth on edge}, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

{To set the watch} (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

{To set to}, to attach to; to affix to. ``He . . . hath set
to his seal that God is true.'' --John iii. 33.

{To set up}. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. ``I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel.'' --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

{To set up the rigging} (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Syn: See {Put}.


Setting \Set"ting\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting
of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting
(hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set)
of a current.

2. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does;
also, hunting with a setter. --Boyle.

3. Something set in, or inserted.

Thou shalt set in it settings of stones. --Ex.
xxviii. 17.

4. That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold
setting of a jeweled pin.

5. the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real
or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.
[PJC]

{Setting coat} (Arch.), the finishing or last coat of
plastering on walls or ceilings.

{Setting dog}, a setter. See {Setter}, n., 2.

{Setting pole}, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing
boats along in shallow water.

{Setting rule}. (Print.) A composing rule.