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setting
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t??
Verb
setting
- present participle of set
Noun
setting (plural settings)
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- the setting of the sun
- the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- the volume setting on a television
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
- Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
- 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
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
Translations
Adjective
setting (comparative more setting, superlative most setting)
- 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)
- 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)
- the act of putting, setting (something somewhere)
- 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)
- a setting (frame, background, context, scenario)
References
- “setting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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when
English
Alternative forms
- wen (eye dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English when(ne), whanne, from Old English hwenne, hwænne, hwonne (“when”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?is (“interrogative base”).
Cognate with Dutch wanneer (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic ???????????? (?an, “when, how”), Latin quand? (“when”). More at who.
Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: hw?n, w?n, IPA(key): /??n/, /w?n/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /??n/, /w?n/
- (Ireland, Scotland) enPR: hw?n, IPA(key): /??n/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /w?n/
- (in accents without the wine–whine merger)
- (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
- (in accents with the wine–whine merger)
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophone: wen (in accents with the wine-whine merger), win (in accents with the wine–whine merger and the pin–pen merger)
Adverb
when (not comparable)
- (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
- 1834, Samuel Kirkham, English Grammar in Familiar Lectures, page 117:
- What words are used as interrogative pronouns? — Give examples.
- When are the words, what, which, and that, called adj. pron.?
- When are they called interrogative pronominal adjectives?
- 1834, Samuel Kirkham, English Grammar in Familiar Lectures, page 117:
- At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.
- (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
Translations
Conjunction
when
- At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
- During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
- At what time; at which time.
- 1839, John Donne, The Works of John Donne: Sermons, Letters, Poems, page 310:
- I am at London only to provide for Monday, when I shall use that favour which my Lady Bedford hath afforded me, of giving her name to my daughter; which I mention to you, […]
- 1929, Donald John Munro, The Roaring Forties and After (page 38)
- He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done; when we were admitted to the kitchen and given a really good meal.
- 1839, John Donne, The Works of John Donne: Sermons, Letters, Poems, page 310:
- Since; given the fact that; considering that.
- Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.
Synonyms
- (as soon as): as soon as, immediately, once
- (every time that): whenever
- (during the time that): while, whilst; see also Thesaurus:while
- (at any time that): whenever
- (at which time):
- (given the fact that): given that, seeing that; see also Thesaurus:because
- (in spite of the fact that): but, where, whereas
Derived terms
- know someone when
- whenwe
Translations
Pronoun
when
- (interrogative) What time; which time.
- 1831 (published), John Davies, Orchestra Or, a Poem of Dancing, in Robert Southey, Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical Sketches, page 706:
- Homer, to whom the Muses did carouse
- A great deep cup with heav'nly nectar fill'd,
- The greatest, deepest cup in Jove's great house,
- (For Jove himself had so expressly will'd)
- He drank off all, nor let one drop be spill'd;
- Since when, his brain that had before been dry,
- Became the well-spring of all poetry.
- 1833, William Potts Dewees, A Treatise on the Diseases of Females, page 495:
- [This] we imagined might have been owing to some accidental condition of the system, or perhaps idiosyncracy; this led us to a second trial, but we experienced the same inconveniences, since when, we have altogether abandoned their use.
- 2012, Emile Letournel, Robert Judet, Fractures of the Acetabulum, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 385:
- So we combined the Kocher-Langenbeck and iliofemoral approach until 1965, since when we have combined the ilioinguinal and Kocher-Langenbeck approaches.
- 1831 (published), John Davies, Orchestra Or, a Poem of Dancing, in Robert Southey, Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical Sketches, page 706:
- The time that.
Translations
Noun
when (plural whens)
- The time at which something happens.
- 2008, Paolo Aite, Lanscapes of the Psyche, Ipoc Press (?ISBN), page 151:
- For the moment, suffice it to say that the stories told through the whens and hows of building a scene differentiate individual desires and needs more clearly than shared speech was up to then able to communicate.
- 2008, Paolo Aite, Lanscapes of the Psyche, Ipoc Press (?ISBN), page 151:
Translations
Interjection
when
- (often humorous) That's enough, a command to stop adding something, especially an ingredient of food or drink -- referring to say when.
- (obsolete) Expressing impatience. (Compare what.)
- c. 1600, Sir John Oldcastle, iv. 1:
- Set, parson, set; the dice die in my hand.
- When, parson, when! what, can you find no more?
- c. 1615-1657, Thomas Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, volume 1:
- Why, when? begin, sir: I must stay your leisure.
- c. 1600, Sir John Oldcastle, iv. 1:
Translations
Derived terms
- whenever
See also
- since when
References
- when at OneLook Dictionary Search
- when in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- hewn
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adverb
when
- Alternative form of whenne
Conjunction
when
- Alternative form of whenne
Etymology 2
Verb
when
- Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)
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