setbackn.

Etymology: < verbal phrase set back: see to set back at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈset-back.

1. figurative. A check to progress, a retardation or retrograde movement, a relapse, reverse.

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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > relapse > [noun]

again-falling1340

regressa1522

retrogration1567

regression1583

retrogradationa1609

reincidency1622

recess1641

retrogation1646

setback1669

retrogress1701

retrogression1757

backwarding1765

fallback1830

throwback1856

regressivity1890

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > hindering or retarding > a set-back

overthwart1513

setback1669

put-backa1697

counter-step1720

back-set1722

backcast1818

throwback1856

1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized i. i. 20 Even when he is about his work, how many set-backs doth he meet with?

1883 Cent. Mag. July 431 Yet, in the face of all set-backs, the city [New Orleans] that once was almost annually scourged, has, in the twenty-seven years since the great epidemic,..suffered but one mild and three severe epidemics.

1895 Daily News 25 Sept. 2/5 Operators are..sore at this sudden set-back, when the boom appeared to be resuming its course on a sounder basis.

1899 Daily News 1 Mar. 5/4 It is now feared that a set-back in the patient's present weakened condition may result in collapse.

a. Architecture. A plain, flat set-off in a wall.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > parts of

wall-sidec1540

jamb1687

coffer1715

set-off1717

ramp1795

wall-casing1858

setback1864

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Weale).

1887 Arch. Publ. Soc. Dict. Set-off; or set-back, or offset.

b. North American. The setting back or recessing of a building from the edge of a roadway (as an element of environmental planning); the limit of this withdrawal or the open area created.

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1916 Ann. Rep. Planning Board of Brookline, Mass., 1915 5 Disregard of the customary setback which has hitherto maintained a margin of cheerful green.

1923 Stud. Building Height Limitations (Zoning Comm. Chicago Real Estate Board) 163 I would like to ask in the case of a narrow street whether it would be automatically widened by the establishment of a fixed set~back.

1937 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Sept. 24/2 Claiming the building of a stone wall along a lot boundary on Wendover road ‘is in total disregard of the theory of setbacks and open spaces in Guildford’.

1947 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 13 Sept. 2/1 (heading) Staples approves rural setbacks.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. Note to plate 51 The architect is freed from arbitrarily uniform prescriptions as to garden allotments, setbacks from roads and obsolete street patterns.

1975 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 27/1 One fence encloses a typical store and defines a deep setback for a distinctive house.

c. North American. A feature of the design of a skyscraper by which higher storeys are successively set back a certain distance behind the line of lower storeys, leaving a horizontal area in front; the horizontal area so formed.

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1923 Stud. Building Height Limitations (Zoning Comm. Chicago Real Estate Board) 23 Additional Heights of Buildings should be allowed, provided proper set-backs are required for such additional stories.

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Jan. 3/6 It [sc. a proposed skyscraper] is to be of the type recently developed..with a reduction of area, or a ‘set back’ from the street line above the tenth floor and similar reductions taking place at intervals thereafter.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 16 May 2/1 Former Governor Alfred E. Smith..announced that on June 1 the club would open a new terrace cafe on one of the setbacks of the Empire State Building.

1945 Washington Post 17 Aug. 1/8 His body cleared more than 100 feet of building setbacks in the seven tiers of parapets designed as obstacles to suicide plunges.

1964 ‘J. H. Roberts’ Q Document i. 12 The façade of the building was deceptive, with sculpted indentations and setbacks.

1977 Guardian Weekly 6 Nov. 18/4 One of the victims is hurled through a closed window, his body coming to rest on a setback seven floors below.

3. A setting back or backward; a thrown-back set (of the shoulders), a backward set (of a golf-club).

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the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [noun] > shoulders

setback1900

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > specific manner of construction

setback1900

1900 M. E. Wilkins Love of Parson Lord 188 The old Beau..had a military set-back to his shoulders.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 10 Nov. 2/1 The angle..which gives the club the necessary set-back and resulting loft.

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4. U.S. = back-set n. 2 (In recent dictionaries.)

Compounds

attributive, as (sense 2b) setback line, setback space; setback hinges n. hinges for setting back window-shutters.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hinge > other types of hinge

window band1419

garnet1459

cross-garnet1659

side hinge1678

H hinge1726

strap hinge1737

butt1765

setback hinges1833

parliament hinge1841

pin hinge1910

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. 269 The hinges used should be what are called set-back hinges, when it is wished to make the shutters fit close to the windows when shut, and to throw them back close to the wall when open.

1917 Establishment of Setbacks (City of N.Y. Comm. on City Plan) 4 The set-back line secures on certain streets a uniform set-back of buildings from the street line.

1948 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 4 Nov. 1/4 An agreement..to permit the super market..to stay four feet inside the prescribed ten-foot setback line.

1948 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 4 Nov. 1/4 If and when the city needs the full ten-foot setback space to widen Preston Avenue, [etc.].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	setback
释义	setbackn. Etymology: < verbal phrase set back: see to set back at set v.¹ Phrasal verbs 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈset-back. 1. figurative. A check to progress, a retardation or retrograde movement, a relapse, reverse. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > relapse > [noun] again-falling1340 regressa1522 retrogration1567 regression1583 retrogradationa1609 reincidency1622 recess1641 retrogation1646 setback1669 retrogress1701 retrogression1757 backwarding1765 fallback1830 throwback1856 regressivity1890 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > hindering or retarding > a set-back overthwart1513 setback1669 put-backa1697 counter-step1720 back-set1722 backcast1818 throwback1856 1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized i. i. 20 Even when he is about his work, how many set-backs doth he meet with? 1883 Cent. Mag. July 431 Yet, in the face of all set-backs, the city [New Orleans] that once was almost annually scourged, has, in the twenty-seven years since the great epidemic,..suffered but one mild and three severe epidemics. 1895 Daily News 25 Sept. 2/5 Operators are..sore at this sudden set-back, when the boom appeared to be resuming its course on a sounder basis. 1899 Daily News 1 Mar. 5/4 It is now feared that a set-back in the patient's present weakened condition may result in collapse. 2. a. Architecture. A plain, flat set-off in a wall. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > parts of wall-sidec1540 jamb1687 coffer1715 set-off1717 ramp1795 wall-casing1858 setback1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Weale). 1887 Arch. Publ. Soc. Dict. Set-off; or set-back, or offset. b. North American. The setting back or recessing of a building from the edge of a roadway (as an element of environmental planning); the limit of this withdrawal or the open area created. ΚΠ 1916 Ann. Rep. Planning Board of Brookline, Mass., 1915 5 Disregard of the customary setback which has hitherto maintained a margin of cheerful green. 1923 Stud. Building Height Limitations (Zoning Comm. Chicago Real Estate Board) 163 I would like to ask in the case of a narrow street whether it would be automatically widened by the establishment of a fixed set~back. 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Sept. 24/2 Claiming the building of a stone wall along a lot boundary on Wendover road ‘is in total disregard of the theory of setbacks and open spaces in Guildford’. 1947 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 13 Sept. 2/1 (heading) Staples approves rural setbacks. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. Note to plate 51 The architect is freed from arbitrarily uniform prescriptions as to garden allotments, setbacks from roads and obsolete street patterns. 1975 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 27/1 One fence encloses a typical store and defines a deep setback for a distinctive house. c. North American. A feature of the design of a skyscraper by which higher storeys are successively set back a certain distance behind the line of lower storeys, leaving a horizontal area in front; the horizontal area so formed. ΚΠ 1923 Stud. Building Height Limitations (Zoning Comm. Chicago Real Estate Board) 23 Additional Heights of Buildings should be allowed, provided proper set-backs are required for such additional stories. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Jan. 3/6 It [sc. a proposed skyscraper] is to be of the type recently developed..with a reduction of area, or a ‘set back’ from the street line above the tenth floor and similar reductions taking place at intervals thereafter. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 16 May 2/1 Former Governor Alfred E. Smith..announced that on June 1 the club would open a new terrace cafe on one of the setbacks of the Empire State Building. 1945 Washington Post 17 Aug. 1/8 His body cleared more than 100 feet of building setbacks in the seven tiers of parapets designed as obstacles to suicide plunges. 1964 ‘J. H. Roberts’ Q Document i. 12 The façade of the building was deceptive, with sculpted indentations and setbacks. 1977 Guardian Weekly 6 Nov. 18/4 One of the victims is hurled through a closed window, his body coming to rest on a setback seven floors below. 3. A setting back or backward; a thrown-back set (of the shoulders), a backward set (of a golf-club). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [noun] > shoulders setback1900 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > specific manner of construction setback1900 1900 M. E. Wilkins Love of Parson Lord 188 The old Beau..had a military set-back to his shoulders. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 10 Nov. 2/1 The angle..which gives the club the necessary set-back and resulting loft. Thesaurus » Categories » 4. U.S. = back-set n. 2 (In recent dictionaries.) Compounds attributive, as (sense 2b) setback line, setback space; setback hinges n. hinges for setting back window-shutters. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hinge > other types of hinge window band1419 garnet1459 cross-garnet1659 side hinge1678 H hinge1726 strap hinge1737 butt1765 setback hinges1833 parliament hinge1841 pin hinge1910 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. 269 The hinges used should be what are called set-back hinges, when it is wished to make the shutters fit close to the windows when shut, and to throw them back close to the wall when open. 1917 Establishment of Setbacks (City of N.Y. Comm. on City Plan) 4 The set-back line secures on certain streets a uniform set-back of buildings from the street line. 1948 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 4 Nov. 1/4 An agreement..to permit the super market..to stay four feet inside the prescribed ten-foot setback line. 1948 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 4 Nov. 1/4 If and when the city needs the full ten-foot setback space to widen Preston Avenue, [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1669
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