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sett

Pronunciation: /sɛtː/

“sett” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 20 meanings in English:

noun

  1. the act or process of setting, placing, or deploying something
  2. the act of setting out fishing nets or other fishing gear
  3. potatoes intended for planting
  4. a group or string of nets or lines set out at one time
  5. a particular fishing ground or area used by a boat
  6. a woman's ornamental headdress, especially one made of lace or gauze and fastened, tied, or pinned in place
  7. a stake or wager
  8. incompletely fermented homemade fruit wine
  9. a jam or tangle of floating timber
  10. a set, collection, or group of related items or units
  11. a coherent body, system, or whole of ideas, phenomena, rights, methods, or similar elements
  12. a set of cutlery
  13. a group of people sitting at a table or working together
  14. a sequence of impressions, sounds, or events following one another
  15. a way or manner
  16. a sudden, forceful jump, leap, lunge, or movement
  17. a sudden involuntary jerk, twitch, or start of the body
  18. a sudden beginning or onset of an action or movement
  19. a round or section in a game, performance, or similar activity
  20. a division of a match consisting of a sequence of legs (individual games)

Etymology

From sette (“to set, put, place”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *satjaną (“to set, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti (“to cause to sit”), the causative of *sed- (“to sit”). The intervening history of the verb is through Danish sætte and Old Danish sætiæ and sættæ. The sports, music and film senses are influenced by English set, which ultimately has the same Proto-Germanic origin.

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