different between set vs swing

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: sett

Etymology 1

From Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).

Verb

set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past set, past participle set or (dialectal) setten)

1. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.

   Synonyms: put, lay, set down

   Antonym: pick up

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

   • The Lord set a mark upon Cain.

3. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.

   • The Lord thy God will set thee on high.

   • I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother.

   • 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hamlet

     Every incident sets him thinking.

4. (transitive) To start (a fire).

   Synonym: light

   Antonyms: extinguish, put out, quench

5. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.

6. (transitive) To determine or settle.

7. (transitive) To adjust.

   (i.e. I programmed it at that hour to go off at a later time)

   (i.e. I programmed it earlier to go off at that hour.)

8. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
9. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.

10. (transitive) To introduce or describe.

11. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.

12. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).

13. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
14. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
15. (transitive) To arrange (type).

16. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.

17. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
18. (intransitive) To solidify.

19. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.

20. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.

21. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
22. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V

      The king is set from London, and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton

23. (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
    • 2012, Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows, p. 155

      Many fruit trees will only flower and set fruit following a cold winter.

24. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
    • 1906, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Fruit Branch, Fruit crop report

      In the Annapolis Valley, in spite of an irregular bloom, the fruit has set well and has, as yet, been little affected by scab.

25. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
    • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 227:

      And if Mrs. Garner didn't need me right there in the kitchen, I could get a chair and you and me could set out there while I did the vegetables.

26. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
27. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.

28. To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
    • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...

      If he set industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him.

29. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
    • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

      Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
30. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.

31. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

32. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.

33. (intransitive, 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.

34. To place or fix in a setting.
35. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.

36. To extend and bring into position; to spread.

37. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fielding to this entry?)

38. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.

39. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
40. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
41. 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.

    • 1815. William Wordsworth, Poems of the Imagination

      pastoral dales thin set with modern farms

42. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
43. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.

44. (Scotland) To suit; to become.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English set, sette, from Old English set (“seat, place of residence, camp, settlement, entrenchment, stable, pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *set (“seat”), from Proto-Germanic *set? (“seat”).

Noun

set (plural sets)

1. A punch for setting nails in wood.

2. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.

3. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
4. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
5. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
6. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
7. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
8. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
   • That was but civil war, an equal set.

9. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.

10. A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
11. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
12. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
13. A young oyster when first attached.
14. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
15. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
16. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.

17. The pattern of a tartan, etc.
18. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
19. The full number of eggs set under a hen.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English sett, from Old English ?esett, past participle of settan.

Adjective

set (comparative more set, superlative most set)

1. Fixed in position.
2. Rigid, solidified.
3. Ready, prepared.

4. Intent, determined (to do something).
5. Prearranged.

6. Fixed in one’s opinion.

7. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.

Synonyms

• (intent, determined): determined, intent
• (prearranged): dictated, prearranged, predetermined, prescribed, specified
• (fixed in one's opinion): fixed, rigid

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 4

From Middle English set, sete, sette (“that which is set, the act of setting, seat”), from Old English set (“setting, seat, a place where people remain, habitation, camp, entrenchment, a place where animals are kept, stall, fold”) and Old English seten (“a set, shoot, slip, branch; a nursery, plantation; that which is planted or set; a cultivated place; planting, cultivation; a setting, putting; a stopping; occupied land”), related to Old English settan (“to set”). Compare Middle Low German gesette (“a set, suite”), Old English gesetl (“assembly”). According to Skeat, in senses denoting a group of things or persons, representing an alteration of sept, from Old French sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Latin secta (“a faction”). See sect. It is quite possible that the modern word is more of a merger between both, however.

Noun

set (plural sets)

1. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
2. A rudimentary fruit.
3. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Adeline

     the set of day
4. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
   • 1840, Thomas De Quincey, Style

     Here and there, amongst individuals alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current, there may have been even a more systematic counteraction applied to the mischief.
5. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.)

6. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.

7. An object made up of several parts.

8. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
9. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
10. A group of people, usually meeting socially.

11. The scenery for a film or play.
12. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
13. (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
    • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.

      This is the fourth set of benchpresses.

15. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
16. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
17. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
18. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
19. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.

20. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
21. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).

Synonyms

• (close of the day): dusk, eve, evening, sundown, sunset
• (general movement): direction, drift, heading, motion, movement, path, tendency, trend
• (matching collection of similar things): suite
• (set theory, in plural): set theory
• (group of people, usually meeting socially): club, coterie
• (scenery): scenery
• (performance of several musical pieces): gig, session
• (drum kit): drums, drum kit, drum set
• (three of a kind): three of a kind

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

set (third-person singular simple present sets, present participle setting, simple past and past participle setted)

1. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
   • 2008, Patricia Murphy, Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities

     In setted classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but identical—in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.

References

Anagrams

• -est, EST, ETS, ETs, Est, Est., STE, StE, Ste, Ste., TEs, TSE, Tse, est, est., tse

Afrikaans

Noun

set (plural [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Numeral

set m or f

1. seven

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. seven

Derived terms

• set pecats capitals

Etymology 2

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?set/

Noun

set f (plural sets)

1. thirst

Derived terms

• assedegar
• sedegar
• sedejar

Further reading

• “set” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “set” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “set” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “set” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

set

1. sofa, couch, settee

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Homophone: sed
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From English set.

Noun

set m

1. (tennis, volleyball) set (part of a match in sports like tennis and volleyball)

Declension

Synonyms

• sada f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

set

1. genitive plural of sto

Further reading

• set in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• set in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Verb

set

1. past participle of se

Derived terms

• sådan set

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Hyphenation: set
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: Seth

Noun

set m (plural sets, diminutive setje n)

1. A set (collection of objects belonging together).
2. A set (installation consisting of multiple appliances).
3. (tennis) A set (tennis match).
4. A film set (filming location).

   Synonym: filmset

Derived terms

• jetset
• kledingset
• loungeset
• pannenset
• setpoint
• stereoset

Eastern Durango Nahuatl

Noun

set

1. ice

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Homophones: cet, cette, sept, sète

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. (tennis) set

Synonyms

• manche

Derived terms

• balle de set

Further reading

• “set” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• est, Ste., tes

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?t]
• Hyphenation: sèt

Etymology 1

From English set, alteration of sept, from Old French sette (“a religious sect”), from Medieval Latin secta (“retinue”), from Latin secta (“a faction”).

Noun

sèt (first-person possessive setku, second-person possessive setmu, third-person possessive setnya)

1. (sports) set, group of games counting as a unit toward a match.

   Synonym: babak

2. set,
   1. a matching collection of similar things.
   2. a collection of various objects for a particular purpose.

   Synonyms: perangkat, setel

3. set, an object made up of several parts.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English set, from Middle English setten, from Old English settan, from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti, causative of *sed- (“to sit”).

Verb

sèt

1. to set
   1. to put in a specified condition or state.
   2. to adjust.
   3. to prepare.
   4. to arrange.

   Synonym: mengeset

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Clipping of strategi (“strategy”)

Noun

set (first-person possessive setku, second-person possessive setmu, third-person possessive setnya)

1. (colloquial) trick; act; strategy

   Synonyms: muslihat, tindak, strategi

Further reading

• “set” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Noun

set m (invariable)

1. set (group of things in maths, tennis, cinema, etc.)

Anagrams

• est

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin septem.

Adjective

set

1. seven

Noun

set m (uncountable)

1. seven

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /set/, [s??t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /set/, [s?t?]

Conjunction

set

1. Alternative form of sed
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
   • sexies viginti petre faciunt carrum plumbi scilicet magnum carrum London’ set carrus del Peek est multo minus.
     • Six times twenty stone make the load of lead, scilicet the great London load, but the load of Peek is much less.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?t]

Verb

set

1. supine of se?

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French sept.

Numeral

set

1. seven

Michif

Etymology

From French sept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?t]

Numeral

set

1. seven

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

set

1. present tense of setja, setje, setta and sette
2. imperative of setja and setje

Etymology 2

Verb

set

1. (non-standard since 1938) past participle of sjå

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis.

Noun

set f or m (plural sets)

1. thirst

Numeral

set (Limousin)

1. seven

Alternative forms

• sèt

Derived terms

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 910.

Old English

Etymology

Compare the verb settan. Compare Old Norse sæti (whence modern English seat), Old High German gesazi (German Gesäß), Middle Dutch gesaete, from Proto-Germanic *s?tij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /set/

Noun

set n

1. seat

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• ?eset

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin septem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t/

Numeral

set

1. seven

Descendants

• Middle French: sept
  • French: sept
• Norman: sept, saept
• Walloon: set

Etymology 2

see savoir

Verb

set

1. third-person singular present indicative of savoir

Descendants

• French: sait

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish sed and Portuguese sede and Kabuverdianu sedi.

Noun

set

1. thirst

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Italic *septem. Cognates include Italian sette and French sept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/

Numeral

set

1. seven

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/

Etymology 1

From English set.

Noun

set m inan

1. (badminton, tennis, volleyball) set (part of the game in badminton, tennis, or volleyball)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

set f

1. genitive plural of seta

Further reading

• set in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• set in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.t(?)(i)/
• Rhymes: -?t(?)i

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. set (group of things in maths, tennis, cinema, etc.)

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Number

set

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) seven

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) siat
• (Sutsilvan) seat

Etymology 2

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?g??ítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

set f

1. (Sutsilvan) thirst

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) said
• (Sursilvan) seit
• (Surmiran) seid

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?set/, [?set?]

Noun

set m (plural sets)

1. (tennis) set

Further reading

• “set” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English set.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t?/
• Homophones: sett, sätt

Noun

set n

1. a set (matching collection of items)
2. a set (in tennis)

Declension

See also

• sett
• sätt
• tågsätt

Anagrams

• est, tes

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Numeral

set

1. seven

Welsh

Verb

set (not mutable)

1. Contraction of baset.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sæti, from Proto-Germanic *s?tij?. Confer the English seat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sè?t]

  Rhymes: -è?t

Noun

set n (definite singular sete, definite plural seta)

1. seat, bench
2. haycock

Derived terms

• höyset (“haycock”)
• snikkarset (“workbench”)

Verb

set (preterite seett, supine sett)

1. to cock hay

English

Etymology

From Middle English swingen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swingan? (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

swing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic) swungen)

1. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

   The plant swung in the breeze.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12

     With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
2. (intransitive) To dance.
3. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.

   The children laughed as they swung.

4. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
5. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
6. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
7. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.

   It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.

8. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

   He swung his sword as hard as he could.

9. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
10. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

    If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.

11. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
12. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
13. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
14. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.

    "to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"

15. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

    The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

16. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
17. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.

    A ship swings with the tide.

Troponyms

• (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point): pivot, swivel

Derived terms

• come out swinging
• overswing
• swing into action
• swingle

Translations

Noun

swing (countable and uncountable, plural swings)

1. The manner in which something is swung.
2. The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
5. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
6. A dance style.
7. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
8. The amount of change towards or away from something.
   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

     Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]

   1. (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.

      The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.

9. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
10. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
11. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
12. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
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14. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.

    • Take thy swing.

    • 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings

      To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle on the full swing of his genius.

15. Influence or power of anything put in motion.
16. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

Quotations

• 1937 June 11, Judy Garland, “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm”, A day at the races, Sam Wood (director), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  All God’s chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing.

  Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes.

  All God’s chillun got rhythm for to push away their blues.

Derived terms

• sex swing
• swing and a miss
• swing of things
• swings and roundabouts
• what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Translations

Anagrams

• Gwins, wings

Czech

Noun

swing m

1. swing (dance)

Further reading

• swing in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• swing in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swi?/

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing; several senses

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Noun

swing m (invariable)

1. swing (music and dance style; golf swing)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing (a dance and music style)
2. swinging (exchange of partners for sex)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swin/, [?sw?n]

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing (dance)