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typesetter
English
Etymology
type +? setter
Noun
typesetter (plural typesetters)
- (historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
- (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.
Synonyms
- (person who sets type): compositor
Translations
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setter
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)
- One who sets something, especially a typesetter.
- A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)
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
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)
- (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)
- 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)
- setter (dog)
Further reading
- setter in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
setter
- present of sette
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