Meaning of Setting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
2. Mount.
3. The act of setting (various senses).
4. Action and result to combine the different parts something to attain an everything.
5. A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
6. Representation or situation that creates to give a mistaken or partial impression on something.
7. A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
8. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
9. Hunting with a setter.
10. Something set in, or inserted.
11. A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
12. The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
13. The direction of a current of wind.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem”

“Bach's setting of the Magnificat”

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