different between wetting vs setting

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?t??/, [?w????]
• Homophone: wedding

Verb

wetting

1. present participle of wet

Noun

wetting (plural wettings)

1. The act of making something wet.
   • 1838, George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c. (page 28)

     It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]

2. The act of accidental urination on or in something.

Derived terms

• bedwetting

Translations

Adjective

wetting (not comparable)

1. That makes (something) wet.

Derived terms

• wetting agent

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.