different between setter vs netter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?t.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?set.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?t.?/, /-??/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(r)
• Hyphenation: set?ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English settere, equivalent to set +? -er. Compare West Frisian setter, Dutch zetter, German Low German Setter, German Setzer.

Noun

setter (plural setters)

1. One who sets something, especially a typesetter.

2. A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).
3. (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
4. (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
5. (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
6. One who hunts victims for sharpers.
7. One who adapts words to music in composition.
8. A shallow seggar for porcelain.

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Synonyms

• (computing): mutator

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• getter

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “setter”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Etymology 2

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Verb

setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)

1. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Anagrams

• Street, Tester, Teters, retest, street, tester

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English setter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.t??/

Noun

setter m (plural setters)

1. setter (dog)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From English setter.

Noun

setter m (invariable)

1. setter (dog)

Further reading

• setter in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

setter

1. present of sette

English

Etymology

From Middle English netter, nettare, equivalent to net +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?(?)/, /-??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: net?ter

Noun

netter (plural netters)

1. One who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
   • 1891, Samuel Wilmot, “Salmon Fisheries of the Bay des Chaleurs”, in Part II of Supplement No. 1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries 1890, Brown Chamberlin (publisher), page 30:

     In England and in Scotland, after centuries of experience, the netter has been so restricted in the use of the destructive engines which were formerly in use there that at the present time many of the more important rivers continue to uphold almost their original standard of fish,—thus actually benefiting the tidal fisherman, the rivers' proprietors, and all concerned.

   • 2004, Cristiana S. Seixas and Fikret Berkes, “Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil”, chapter eight of Leontine E. Visser (editor), Challenging Coasts: Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development, Amsterdam University Press, ?ISBN, page 190:

     The conflict between gill-netters and cast-netters has existed at least since the 1940s. The conflict is about resource allocation since gill-netters, who are only a few in number, capture much more resources with less human effort than the large majority of fishers who use cast nets.

2. An Internet user.
   • 2005, David T. Hill, Krishna Sen, The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy (page 61)

     The vast majority of Indonesian netters use landlines, either from home or office, or from a public Internet access point.

Anagrams

• retent, tenter

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

netter

1. comparative degree of nett

Adjective

netter

1. inflection of nett:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

netter f or m

1. indefinite plural of natt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

netter f

1. indefinite plural of natt