different between setting vs character

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Verb

setting

1. present participle of set

Noun

setting (plural settings)

1. The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
2. The act of setting.

   the setting of the sun

   the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris

3. A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
4. A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.

   the volume setting on a television

5. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
6. Hunting with a setter.
7. Something set in, or inserted.

   • Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.

8. A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).

   Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem

   Bach's setting of the Magnificat

9. The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
10. The direction of a current of wind.

Translations

Adjective

setting (comparative more setting, superlative most setting)

1. that disappears below the horizon

Hyponyms

• record-setting

Translations

Anagrams

• testing, tingest

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English setting

Noun

setting f or m (definite singular settinga or settingen, indefinite plural settinger, definite plural settingene)

1. setting

References

• “setting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From setja +? -ing.

Alternative forms

• setjing

Noun

setting f (definite singular settinga, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)

1. the act of putting, setting (something somewhere)
2. the manner of putting, setting (something somewhere)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English setting.

Noun

setting m (definite singular settingen, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)

1. a setting (frame, background, context, scenario)

References

• “setting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??kt?/
• Hyphenation: char?ac?ter

Noun

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

1. (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
2. (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.

3. (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.

   • A man of […] thoroughly subservient character

4. (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

5. (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

6. (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

7. (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
8. (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
9. (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
10. (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

11. (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
12. (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

13. (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

    • This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

14. (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
15. (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.

Usage notes

Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Pages starting with “character”.

Translations

Verb

character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)

1. (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

See also

• codepoint
• font
• glyph
• letter
• symbol
• rune
• pictogram

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]

Noun

character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension

1. branding iron
2. brand (made by a branding iron)
3. characteristic, mark, character, style

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Hungarian: karakter
• Galician: caritel; ? carácter
• Irish: carachtar
• Italian: carattere
• Old French: caractere
  • ? English: character
  • French: caractère
• Polish: charakter
  • ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
• Portuguese: caractere, carácter
• Sicilian: caràttiri
• Spanish: carácter

References

• character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

character m (plural characteres)

1. Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).