different between setting vs heliacal

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 Ancient Greek ??????? (h?liakós, “of the sun”) +? -al. Appears in English first in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /h??la???k?l/

Adjective

heliacal

1. (rare) Of or relating to the Sun, especially rising and setting with the sun.
2. Of or relating to the rising of a star when it first becomes visible just before sunrise in the eastern sky, having previously been made invisible by sunlight, or the analogous situation of its setting just after sunset.

Anagrams

• achillea