different between setter vs seter

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 1

See saeter.

Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. Alternative spelling of saeter
   • 1964, Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway, page 114:

     Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.

   • 1968, Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, page 248:

     In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.

   • 2002, Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present, page 131:

     For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.

Etymology 2

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Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
   • 1906, Eduard Suess, The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde), page 479:

     The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.

   • 2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere ?ISBN, page 227

     As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.

Etymology 3

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Noun

seter (plural seters)

1. A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.

Anagrams

• Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, steer, stere, teers, teres, terse, trees

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch ster (“star”), from Middle Dutch sterre, sterne, from Old Dutch sterro, sterno, from Proto-Germanic *sternô, *stern?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??t?r]
• Hyphenation: sê?tèr

Noun

seter or sêtèr

1. (colloquial) star, a star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.

   Synonym: bintang

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

seter n pl

1. indefinite plural of sete

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse setr, sætr.

Noun

seter f (definite singular setra, indefinite plural setrar or setrer, definite plural setrane or setrene)

1. a seter

   Synonym: støl

Alternative forms

• sæter (non-standard since 2012)

Derived terms

Related terms

• sitja (“to sit”).

Etymology 2

Noun

seter f

1. indefinite plural of sete

References

• “seter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Ester, ester, reset, reste, setre, teser, terse