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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun set has 13 senses

Verb set has 25 senses

Adjective set has 7 senses

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CIDE DICTIONARY
set, v. t. [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. sätta, Dan. stte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root of E. sit. Sit, and cf. Seize.].
  •  To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.  [1913 Webster]
    "I do set my bow in the cloud."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.  [1913 Webster]
    "Set your affection on things above."  [1913 Webster]
    "The Lord set a mark upon Cain."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.  [1913 Webster]
    "The Lord thy God will set thee on high."  [1913 Webster]
    "I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother."  [1913 Webster]
    "Every incident sets him thinking."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.  [1913 Webster]
    "They show how hard they are set in this particular."  [1913 Webster]
    "His eyes were set by reason of his age."  [1913 Webster]
    "On these three objects his heart was set."  [1913 Webster]
    "Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint."  [1913 Webster]
    "And him too rich a jewel to be set
    In vulgar metal for a vulgar use.    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.  [1913 Webster]
    "Tables for to sette, and beddes make."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To stake at play; to wager; to risk.  [1913 Webster]
    "I have set my life upon a cast,
    And I will stand the hazard of the die.    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.  [1913 Webster]
    "Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.  [1913 Webster]
    "High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
    Each lady wore a radiant coronet.    "  [1913 Webster]
    "Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To value; to rate; -- with at.  [1913 Webster]
    "Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
    To have a son set your decrees at naught.    "  [1913 Webster]
    "I do not set my life at a pin's fee."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.  [1913 Webster]
    "Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that."  [1913 Webster]
    "Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army."  [1913 Webster]
    "This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by."  [1913 Webster]
    "The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians."  [1913 Webster]
    "If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself."  [1913 Webster]
    "They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs."  [1913 Webster]
    "An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become."  [1913 Webster]
    "The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war."  [1913 Webster]
    "I could set out that best side of Luther."  [1913 Webster]
    "I'll set up such a note as she shall hear."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Put.
set, v. i. 
  •  To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.  [1913 Webster]
    "Ere the weary sun set in the west."  [1913 Webster]
    "Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To fit music to words.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.  Old Proverb.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).  [1913 Webster]
  •  To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.  [1913 Webster]
    "A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To congeal; to concrete; to solidify; -- of cements, glues, gels, concrete, substances polymerizing into plastics, etc.  [1913 Webster]
    "That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.  [1913 Webster]
    "The king is set from London."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.  [1913 Webster]
    "If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of doubting but it shall prove successful to him."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
    "[Colloquially used, but improperly, for sit.]"  [1913 Webster]
    " The use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as, the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen, etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved."  [1913 Webster]
    "He that would seriously set upon the search of truth."  [1913 Webster]
    "Cassio hath here been set on in the dark."  [1913 Webster]
    "Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part."  [1913 Webster]
set, a. 
  •  Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.  [1913 Webster]
Set hammer. (a) A hammer the head of which is not tightly fastened upon the handle, but may be reversed. Knight. (b) A hammer with a concave face which forms a die for shaping anything, as the end of a bolt, rivet, etc. -- Set line, a line to which a number of baited hooks are attached, and which, supported by floats and properly secured, may be left unguarded during the absence of the fisherman. -- Set nut, a jam nut or lock nut. See under Nut. -- Set screw (Mach.), a screw, sometimes cupped or printed at one end, and screwed through one part, as of a machine, tightly upon another part, to prevent the one from slipping upon the other. -- Set speech, a speech carefully prepared before it is delivered in public; a formal or methodical speech.
set, n. 
  •  The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.  Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]
    "The weary sun hath made a golden set."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which is set, placed, or fixed.  [1913 Webster]
    "We will in France, by God's grace, play a set
    Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.    "  [1913 Webster]
    "That was but civil war, an equal set."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.  Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]
    "This falls into different divisions, or sets, of nations connected under particular religions."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.  [1913 Webster]
  •  In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A young oyster when first attached.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any of various standards of measurement of the fineness of cloth; specif., the number of reeds in one inch and the number of threads in each reed. The exact meaning varies according to the location where it is used. Sometimes written sett.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  A stone, commonly of granite, shaped like a short brick and usually somewhat larger than one, used for street paving. Commonly written sett.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  Camber of a curved roofing tile.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit; as, the set of a coat.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  Any collection or group of objects considered together.  [PJC]
Dead set. (a) The act of a setter dog when it discovers the game, and remains intently fixed in pointing it out. (b) A fixed or stationary condition arising from obstacle or hindrance; a deadlock; as, to be at a dead set. (c) A concerted scheme to defraud by gaming; a determined onset. -- To make a dead set, to make a determined onset, literally or figuratively.
Syn. -- Collection; series; group. See Pair.
set, prop. n. 
     An evil beast-headed god with high square ears and a long snout; his was the brother and murderer of Osiris. Called also Seth  [WordNet 1.6]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
set, v. (setting; past and past part. set)
1 tr. put, lay, or stand (a thing) in a certain position or location (set it on the table; set it upright).
2 tr. (foll. by to) apply (one thing) to (another) (set pen to paper).
3 tr. a fix ready or in position. b dispose suitably for use, action, or display.
4 tr. a adjust the hands of (a clock or watch) to show the right time. b adjust (an alarm clock) to sound at the required time.
5 tr. a fix, arrange, or mount. b insert (a jewel) in a ring, framework, etc.
6 tr. make (a device) ready to operate.
7 tr. lay (a table) for a meal.
8 tr. arrange (the hair) while damp so that it dries in the required style.
9 tr. (foll. by with) ornament or provide (a surface, esp. a precious item) (gold set with gems).
10 tr. bring by placing or arranging or other means into a specified state; cause to be (set things in motion; set it on fire).
11 intr. & tr. harden or solidify (the jelly is set; the cement has set).
12 intr. (of the sun, moon, etc.) appear to move towards and below the earth's horizon (as the earth rotates).
13 tr. represent (a story, play, scene, etc.) as happening in a certain time or place.
14 tr. a (foll. by to + infin.) cause or instruct (a person) to perform a specified activity (set them to work). b (foll. by pres. part.) start (a person or thing) doing something (set him chatting; set the ball rolling).
15 tr. present or impose as work to be done or a matter to be dealt with (set them an essay).
16 tr. exhibit as a type or model (set a good example).
17 tr. initiate; take the lead in (set the fashion; set the pace).
18 tr. establish (a record etc.).
19 tr. determine or decide (the itinerary is set).
20 tr. appoint or establish (set them in authority).
21 tr. join, attach, or fasten.
22 tr. a put parts of (a broken or dislocated bone, limb, etc.) into the correct position for healing. b deal with (a fracture or dislocation) in this way.
23 tr. (in full set to music) provide (words etc.) with music for singing.
24 tr. (often foll. by up) Printing a arrange or produce (type or film etc.) as required. b arrange the type or film etc. for (a book etc.).
25 intr. (of a tide, current, etc.) have a certain motion or direction.
26 intr. (of a face) assume a hard expression.
27 tr. a cause (a hen) to sit on eggs. b place (eggs) for a hen to sit on.
28 tr. put (a seed, plant, etc.) in the ground to grow.
29 tr. give the teeth of (a saw) an alternate outward inclination.
30 tr. esp. US start (a fire).
31 intr. (of eyes etc.) become motionless.
32 intr. feel or show a certain tendency (opinion is setting against it).
33 intr. a (of blossom) form into fruit. b (of fruit) develop from blossom. c (of a tree) develop fruit.
34 intr. (in full set to partner) (of a dancer) take a position facing one's partner.
35 intr. (of a hunting dog) take a rigid attitude indicating the presence of game.
36 intr. dial. or sl. sit.

Idiom
set about
1 begin or take steps towards.
2 colloq. attack.
set (a person or thing) against (another)
1 consider or reckon (a thing) as a counterpoise or compensation for.
2 cause to oppose. set apart separate, reserve, differentiate. set aside see ASIDE.
set back
1 place further back in place or time.
2 impede or reverse the progress of.
3 colloq. cost (a person) a specified amount.
set-back n.
1 a reversal or arrest of progress.
2 a relapse. set by archaic save for future use.
set down
1 record in writing.
2 allow to alight from a vehicle.
3 (foll. by to) attribute to.
4 (foll. by as) explain or describe to oneself as. set eyes on see EYE. set one's face against see FACE. set foot on (or in) see FOOT. set forth 1 begin a journey.
2 make known; expound. set forward begin to advance. set free release. set one's hand to see HAND. set one's heart (or hopes) on want or hope for eagerly. set in 1 (of weather, a condition, etc.) begin (and seem likely to continue), become established.
2 insert (esp. a sleeve etc. into a garment). set little by consider to be of little value. set a person's mind at rest see MIND. set much by consider to be of much value.
set off
1 begin a journey.
2 detonate (a bomb etc.).
3 initiate, stimulate.
4 cause (a person) to start laughing, talking, etc.
5 serve as an adornment or foil to; enhance.
6 (foll. by against) use as a compensating item.
set-off n.
1 a thing set off against another.
2 a thing of which the amount or effect may be deducted from that of another or opposite tendency.
3 a counterpoise.
4 a counter-claim.
5 a thing that embellishes; an adornment to something.
6 Printing = OFFSET 7.
set on (or upon)
1 attack violently.
2 cause or urge to attack.
set out
1 begin a journey.
2 (foll. by to + infin.) aim or intend.
3 demonstrate, arrange, or exhibit.
4 mark out.
5 declare.
set sail
1 hoist the sails.
2 begin a voyage. set the scene see SCENE. set store by (or on) see STORE.
set one's teeth
1 clench them.
2 summon one's resolve. set to begin doing something vigorously, esp. fighting, arguing, or eating. set-to n. (pl. -tos) colloq. a fight or argument.
set up
1 place in position or view.
2 organize or start (a business etc.).
3 establish in some capacity.
4 supply the needs of.
5 begin making (a loud sound).
6 cause or make arrangements for (a condition or situation).
7 prepare (a task etc. for another).
8 restore or enhance the health of (a person).
9 establish (a record).
10 propound (a theory).
11 colloq. put (a person) in a dangerous or vulnerable position.
set-up n.
1 an arrangement or organization.
2 the manner or structure or position of this. set oneself up as make pretensions to being.
set, n.
1 a number of things or persons that belong together or resemble one another or are usually found together.
2 a collection or group.
3 a section of society consorting together or having similar interests etc.
4 a collection of implements, vessels, etc., regarded collectively and needed for a specified purpose (cricket set; teaset; a set of teeth).
5 a piece of electric or electronic apparatus, esp. a radio or television receiver.
6 (in tennis etc.) a group of games counting as a unit towards a match for the player or side that wins a defined number or proportion of the games.
7 Math. & Logic a collection of distinct entities, individually specified or satisfying specified conditions, forming a unit.
8 a group of pupils or students having the same average ability.
9 a a slip, shoot, bulb, etc., for planting. b a young fruit just set.
10 a a habitual posture or conformation; the way the head etc. is carried or a dress etc. flows. b (also dead set) a setter's pointing in the presence of game.
11 the way, drift, or tendency (of a current, public opinion, state of mind, etc.) (the set of public feeling is against it).
12 the way in which a machine, device, etc., is set or adjusted.
13 esp. Austral. & NZ colloq. a grudge.
14 a the alternate outward deflection of the teeth of a saw. b the amount of this.
15 the last coat of plaster on a wall.
16 Printing a the amount of spacing in type controlling the distance between letters. b the width of a piece of type.
17 a warp or bend or displacement caused by continued pressure or a continued position.
18 a setting, including stage furniture etc., for a play or film etc.
19 a sequence of songs or pieces performed in jazz or popular music.
20 the setting of the hair when damp.
21 (also sett) a badger's burrow.
22 (also sett) a granite paving-block.
23 a predisposition or expectation influencing a response.
24 a number of people making up a square dance.

Idiom
make a dead set at
1 make a determined attack on.
2 seek to win the affections of.
set point Tennis etc.
1 the state of a game when one side needs only one more point to win the set.
2 this point. set theory the branch of mathematics concerned with the manipulation of sets.
set, adj.
1 in senses of SET(1).
2 prescribed or determined in advance.
3 fixed, unchanging, unmoving.
4 (of a phrase or speech etc.) having invariable or predetermined wording; not extempore.
5 prepared for action.
6 (foll. by on, upon) determined to acquire or achieve etc.
7 (of a book etc.) specified for reading in preparation for an examination.
8 (of a meal) served according to a fixed menu.

Idiom
set fair (of the weather) fine without a sign of breaking. set phrase an invariable or usual arrangement of words. set piece
1 a formal or elaborate arrangement, esp. in art or literature.
2 fireworks arranged on scaffolding etc. set screw a screw for adjusting or clamping parts of a machine. set scrum Rugby Football a scrum ordered by the referee. set square a right-angled triangular plate for drawing lines, esp. at 90°, 45°, 60°, or 30°.
Etymology
past part. of SET(1)
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THESAURUS

set

A to Z, A to izzard, Brownian movement, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Zeitgeist, abet, accepted, accommodate, accord, accretion, acrid, aculeate, acuminate, acute, adapt, address, adhere, adherence, adhesion, adjust, adjust to, advance, aesthetic form, affix, affluence, afflux, affluxion, age group, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aim, aim at, air, all, all and sundry, all ready, all set, allocate, allot, alpha and omega, anchor, anchored, angular motion, animus, annex, appoint, appropriate to, aptitude, aptness, archetype, armed, armed and ready, arrange, arranged, art form, ascending, ascent, ascertained, aspect, assemblage, assign, assign to, assigned, assimilate, assured, attach, attested, attitude, attune, authorize, axial motion, azimuth, back number, back-number, backed, backflowing, backing, backward motion, balking, balky, banal, band, barb, base, battalion, battery, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be seated, be with child, be-all, be-all and end-all, bear, bearing, bearings, bed, beginning and end, belay, bend, bend to, bent, bestow, bet, bevy, bewhiskered, bias, bigoted, block, block out, blood, blueprinted, body, bonded, booted and spurred, borne, bracket, branch, breed, briefed, brigade, broadcast, bromidic, brood, build, build in, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, bump, bunch, burden with, cabal, cabinet, cadre, cake, calcified, calculated, callous, calloused, camarilla, candy, career, carry, carry young, carve, case-hardened, cast, caste, category, cave, cave in, celestial navigation, cell, cement, cemented, certain, certified, character, charge, charmed circle, charted, chassis, chisel, chronic, cicatrize, cinch, circle, circumscribed, circumscript, clabber, clamp, clan, clasp, class, cleave, climbing, clinch, cling, cling to, clinging, clique, clock, close, close up, closed circle, clot, clotting, clump, cluster, clustering, coached, coagulate, coagulation, cock, cocked, cohere, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, cohort, collection, common, commonplace, compaction, company, complement, comportment, compose, concourse, concrete, concretion, condensation, condense, conduce, configuration, confirm, confirmed, confluence, conflux, conformable, conformation, congeal, congealment, congelation, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, console, consolidation, constant, constitution, consuetudinary, contingent, contribute, contrived, conventional, coordinate, copy, corny, corps, coterie, couple, course, cover, covey, cramp, create, crew, crosscurrent, crowd, crusted, crusty, crystallize, crystallized, curd, curdle, current, customary, cut, cut to, cut-and-dried, cutting, dead reckoning, decided, decisive, decline, decree, deep-dye, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, define, defined, definite, defluxion, delimited, demand, demarcated, demeanor, denominate, deployed, deportment, deposit, descend, descending, descent, designate, designed, destine, detachment, detail, determinate, determine, determined, devised, diathesis, dibble, dictate, diehard, dip, direct, direction, direction line, directionize, dispose, disposition, disseminate, division, dogged, dogmatic, double-edged, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drift, driftage, drill, droop, drop, dry, dyed-in-the-wool, each and every, earmark, ebb, ebbing, eccentricity, edge, edged, edition, efform, elite, elite group, embed, embedded, embosomed, embossed, embrace, emplace, emplaced, encircled, engraft, engrafted, engrave, engraved, enjoin, ensconce, ensconced, entrench, entrenched, equalize, equipped, especial, establish, established, estate, etch, etched, everyday, everything, exact, exposure, faction, fade, familiar, familiarized, fanatic, fashion, fast, fasten, fasten upon, fastened, fate, featheredged, figuration, figure, figured, file, fine, firm, firmly established, fit, fix, fix on, fixed, fleet, flight, flinty, flood, flop, flop down, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flowing, fluency, flump, flump down, flush, flux, foment, forest, forge, form, formalize, format, formation, forward motion, fossilized, found, founder, frame, freeze to, freight with, frontage, fusty, game, gang, gear to, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, generally accepted, genius, genre, gestate, get up steam, give way, glacial movement, glued, go, go down, good and ready, grade, graft, grain, granulate, granulated, grapple, grasp, graven, grind, groomed, ground, group, grouping, groupment, grow together, guaranteed, gush, hackney, hackneyed, hang on, hang together, hardened, hardheaded, harmonize, hatch, have a tendency, head, heading, headstrong, heal, heal over, hedged about, helmsmanship, hew, hold, hold a heading, hold on, hold together, homologate, homologize, hone, hornified, housing, hover, hug, idiosyncrasy, immovable, impact, implant, implanted, impose, impose on, impose upon, impress, impressed, impression, imprint, imprinted, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the bag, in the saddle, in the works, in-group, inclination, incline, incorrigible, incrassate, incrusted, incubate, inculcated, indelibly impressed, indicate, individualism, indurate, indurated, ineffectual, infix, infixed, inflexible, inflict on, inflict upon, inflow, informed, ingrain, ingrained, ingroup, ingrown, inner circle, inner form, inscribe, inseminate, inseparability, inspissate, install, installed, instigate, instilled, instruct, instrument, instrumentate, intent, intolerant, invest, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, issue, jam, jammed, jell, jellify, jelly, junction, junta, junto, justify, keen, keen-edged, key to, kidney, kin, kit, knack, knead, knifelike, knit, knock out, knot, label, lapidified, lapse, lay, lay down, lay on, lay out, lay the foundation, layout, lead, lean, leaning, length and breadth, level, level at, levy, library, library edition, lick into shape, lie, limited, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, load, loaded, loaded for bear, located, lodge, long-established, look to, look-alikes, lopper, lot, lower, loyal, lump, made sure, main current, mainstream, make, make an adaptation, make assignments, make fast, make obligatory, make plumb, make uniform, make up, makeup, mark, mark off, mark out for, mass, matching pair, matrix, mature, mean, measure, melodize, mental set, mention, methodized, mettle, mien, mill run, millrace, mind, mind-set, mint, mise-en-scene, mob, mobilized, modality, mode, model, mold, moor, moth-eaten, motion, mounting, movement, mulish, musicalize, musty, nailed down, name, narrow, nature, navigation, normal, nose, number, oblique motion, obstinate, obtaining, oilstone, old hat, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, on ice, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the mark, on the tapis, one and all, ongoing, onrush, onward course, open-and-shut, opinionated, orchestrate, ordain, order, ordinary, organized, orientation, ossified, out-group, outfit, outflow, overrun, overzealous, pack, package, package deal, pair, paltry, park, party, passage, pattern, peer group, perch, persevering, persist, pertinacious, petrified, phalanx, pi, pi a form, pick out, pigeonhole, pigheaded, pilotage, piloting, pin down, pitch, place, placed, planned, plant, planted, platitudinous, platoon, play, plop, plop down, plotted, plump, plunging, point, point at, point out, point to, popular, port, portion off, pose, posit, position, position line, positioned, posse, post, posted, pot, pour, prearranged, predicament, predilection, predisposition, preference, prepare, prepared, prepared and ready, prescribe, prescribed, prescriptive, presence, present, prevalent, prime, primed, print, printing, proclivity, progress, projected, proportion, prototype, proved, provided, provoke, psyched up, put, put down, put in, put in tune, put on, put to, put to music, put up, put upon, quarter, race, radial motion, radio, radio bearing, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, raise, random motion, range, rank, rating, rationalized, razor-edged, ready, ready for anything, received, receiver, receiving set, reconcile, rectify, redound to, reflowing, refluence, reflux, reforest, regiment, regression, regular, regulate, regulation, regurgitate, reinforced, remain seated, require, reserve, reset, resolute, resolved, restive, restrict, restrict to, retimber, retrogression, right, right itself, rigid, rigidified, ring, ripe, rising, riveted, roost, root, rooted, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rubric, run, rush, saddle with, sag, salon, sapling, scab over, scatter seed, scenery, schedule, scheduled, schematized, school edition, scion, sclerotic, score, screw up, sculpt, sculpture, seat, seated, section, secure, seed, seed down, seedling, select, self-willed, seminate, sept, series, serve, set apart, set aside, set in, set in print, set off, set on, set right, set to, set to music, set toward, set up, setting, settle, settle down, settled, settled in habit, shape, shaped, sharp, sharpen, shoot, show a tendency, sideward motion, sight on, significant form, signify, similarize, sink, sink down, sinking, sit, sit down, situate, situated, slant, slip, slouch, slump, slump down, small, soaring, solidification, solidified, solidify, sot, sound, sow, sow broadcast, spate, special, specialize, specific, specified, specify, spiculate, spotted, spread, sprig, sprout, spur, squad, square, stabilized, stable, stage, stage set, stage setting, stake, stale, stamp, standard, staple, state, stated, station, stationed, status, staunch, stay, stay put, steadfast, steady, steam up, steeled, steely, steer, steerage, steering, stereotype, stereotyped, sternway, stick, stick together, sticking, stiff-necked, stiffened, stipulate, stipulated, stir up, stock, strain, strap, strategetic, strategic, stratum, streak, stream, strengthened, string, stripe, strong-willed, strongheaded, strop, structure, stubborn, stuck, style, subdivision, subgroup, subject to, submerge, submit, suborder, subside, subsiding, sucker, suit, suite, sulky, sullen, sur le tapis, surge, surge back, surrounded, swag, swing, sync, synchronize, systematized, tactical, tag, tailor, take a set, take hold of, talent, taped, taper, task, tax, team, temper, temperament, tenacious, tend, tend to go, tendency, tenor, tested, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the general tendency, the lot, the main course, the whole, the whole range, thermoform, thick, thicken, thorough, threadbare, tide, tight, tighten, time spirit, time-honored, timeworn, title, tone, toughened, track, trade book, trade edition, traditional, train, train upon, traject, trajet, transcribe, transplant, transpose, trend, tribe, trice up, tried, trim, trim to, trite, troop, troupe, true, true up, truistic, tune, turn, turn of mind, turn upon, twig, twins, twist, two-edged, type, unbending, uncooperative, undeflectable, undercurrent, undertow, unflappable, unoriginal, unregenerate, unshaken, unswerving, unyielding, up in arms, upward motion, usual, verge, vest, vested, vigilant, vitrified, volume, wager, warm up, warmed-over, warp, warranted, water flow, way, we-group, wedge, wedged, weight down with, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-known, well-prepared, well-set, well-settled, well-worn, whet, whip up, widespread, willful, wind, wind up, wing, wireless, wireless set, wonted, work, work toward, worked out, worn, worn thin, write, yoke with
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Habit

N habit, habitude, assuetude, assuefaction, wont, run, way, common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things, matter of course, beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground, prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice, prevalence, observance, conventionalism, conventionality, mode, fashion, vogue, etiquette, order of the day, cry, conformity, consuetude, dustoor, one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae, laudator temporis acti, rule, standing order, precedent, routine, red-tape, red-tapism, pipe clay, rut, groove, cacoethes, bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit, addiction, trick, training, seasoning, second nature, acclimatization, knack, habitual, accustomary, prescriptive, accustomed, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, consuetudinary, wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot, well-trodden, well-known, familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped, prevailing, prevalent, current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited, of course, admitted, understood, conformable, according to use, according to custom, according to routine, in vogue, in fashion, in, with it, fashionable, wont, used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated, in the habit of, habitue, at home in, seasoned, imbued with, devoted to, wedded to, hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting, naturalized, ingrained, habitually, always, as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards, more suo, more solito, ex more, as a rule, for the most part, usually, generally, typically, most often, most frequently, cela s'entend, abeunt studia in mores, adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, consuetudo quasi altera natura, hoc erat in more majorum, How use doth breed a habit in a man!, magna est vis consuetudinis, morent fecerat usus.

State

N state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character, conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic, conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case.

Junction

VB join, unite, conjoin, connect, associate, put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together, embody, reembody, roll into one, attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast, tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain, fetter, lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket, marry, bridge over, span, braze, pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet, impact, solder, set, weld together, fuse together, wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase, graft, ingraft, inosculate, entwine, intwine, interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, entangle, twine round, belay, tighten, trice up, screw up, be joined, hang together, hold together, cohere.

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.

Preparation

VB prepare, get ready, make ready, make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation, set in order, put in order, forecast, prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground, till the soil, cultivate the soil, predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine, lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations, dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding, lay the first stone, roughhew, cut out work, block out, hammer out, lick into shape, elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity, nurture, hatch, cook, brew, temper, anneal, smelt, barbecue, infumate, maturate, equip, arm, man, fit-out, fit up, furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge, dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up, refurbish, sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune, whet the knife, whet the sword, wind up, screw up, adjust, put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness, pack, train, inure, breed, prepare for, rehearse, make provision for, take steps, take measures, take precautions, provide, provide against, beat up for recruits, open the door to, set one's house in order, make all snug, clear the decks, clear for action, close one's ranks, shuffle the cards, prepare oneself, serve an apprenticeship, lay oneself out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor, reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to, guard against, make sure against, forearm, make sure, prepare for the evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's nest, lay in provisions, make investments, keep on foot, be prepared, be ready, hold oneself in readiness, keep one's powder dry, lie in wait for, anticipate, principiis obstare, veniente occurrere morbo.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

Command

VB command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders, prescribe, set, appoint, mark out, set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task, set to work, put in requisition, bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct, require at the hands of, exact, impose, tax, task, demand, insist on, claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim, cite, summon, call for, send for, subpoena, beckon, issue a command, make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order, give the word of command, give the word, give the signal, call to order, give the law, lay down the law, assume the command, remand, be ordered, receive an order.

Stability

VB be firm, stick fast, stand firm, keep firm, remain firm, weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle under, settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate, retain, keep hold, make good, make sure, fasten, set on its legs, float, perpetuate, settle down, strike roots, put down roots, take root, take up one's abode, build one's house on a rock.

Tendency

N tendency, aptness, aptitude, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility, conatus, nisus, liability, quality, nature, temperament, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, cast, vein, grain, humor, mood, drift, conduciveness, conducement, applicability, subservience, tending, conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to, liable, subservient, useful, subsidiary, for, whither.

Location

VB place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace.

Form

N form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

VB form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast, rough hew, rough cast, sketch, block out, hammer out, trim, lick into shape, put into shape, model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture, cast, stamp, build.

Sharpness

VB be sharp, taper to a point, bristle with, render sharp, sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind, chip (flint), cut.

N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.

Direction

N direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director, directing, hegemonic, at the helm, at the head of, direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, North East, South, West, N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot, directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, North, Northern, Northerly, towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds, the shortest distance between two points is a stra.

Descent

VB descend, go down, drop down, come down, fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle, plunge, plummet, crash, decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg, slump, dismount, alight, light, get down, swoop, stoop, fall prostrate, precipitate oneself, let fall, tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down, tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

Density

VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

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