英语词汇“set fire to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A clay poor in lime and iron, suitable for making fire-resistant pottery and firebricks

A system of controlling artillery fire, esp the whole gunfire of a ship from one centre

A device for making a noise, a cylinder of paper or cardboard containing an explosive and a fuse

A portable device for spraying water, chemicals, foam, etc onto a fire to put it out

A person whose job is the putting out of fires and the rescuing of people and animals in danger

A method of carrying someone by putting him or her face down over one's shoulder, esp used by firefighters in rescuing unconscious or injured people

A metal plate formerly placed by insurance companies to mark an insured building

Any of the three signs of the zodiac (Aries, Leo and Sagittarius) believed to have an affinity with fire

A place where fire engines, firefighters, etc are kept in readiness to attend fires

A huge blaze (esp a result of heavy bombing) which fans its own flames by creating its own draught (also figurative)

A road through forest or bush that allows firefighters to reach fires in remote parts

A person who watches out for fires resulting from bombing or in eg forested areas

set on fire or set fire to

To ignite

under fire

Exposed to the enemy's fire
Exposed to criticism

set /set/

transitive verb (settˈing; set)

To put, place, or fix in position or required condition
To dispose, array, arrange
To restore (a broken bone) to its normal alignment
To apply
To cause to be
To plant
To stake
To embed
To frame
To mount
To beset or bestow about
To stud, dot, sprinkle, variegate
To put in type (printing)
To compose (type)
To form or represent, eg in jewels
To adjust to show the correct (or a specified) time, etc
To spread, lay, cover (a table) with the food, dishes, etc for a meal, or (Scot and dialect) to cover the table with the food, dishes, etc for (a meal)
To regulate
To appoint
To ordain
To assign
To prescribe
To propound
To put on a course, start off
To incite, direct
To put in opposition
To posit
To cause to become solid, coagulated, rigid, fixed, or motionless
To begin to form (eg a fruit or seed)
To rate, value
To pitch (eg a tune)
To compose or fit music to
To position (sails) to catch the wind
To arrange (hair) in a particular style when wet, so that it will remain in it when dry
To seat (obsolete and dialect)
To put (a hen) on eggs
To put (eggs) under a hen
(of a gundog) to indicate by crouching
To sharpen (eg a razor)
To defeat (one's opponent's contract) usu by a stated number of tricks (bridge)
To escort (Scot and N Eng dialect)
To lease or let to a tenant (esp Scot)
To become, befit (chiefly Scot)
Conversely, to appear to advantage in (Scot)

intransitive verb

To go down towards or below the horizon, to decline
To offer a stake
To become rigid, fixed, hard, solid, or permanent
To coagulate
(of a broken bone) to knit
To settle down
(of eg bone) to begin to develop
To have, take or start along a course or direction
To dance in a facing position
To acquire a set or bend
(of dogs) to point out game
To apply or betake oneself
To hang in position
To be in session
To sit (now obsolete or dialect)

adjective

In any of the senses of the participle
Prescribed
Deliberate, intentional
Prearranged
Formal
Settled
Fixed
Rigid
Determined
Regular
Established
Ready

noun

A group of persons or things, esp of a type that associate, occur, or are used together or have something in common
A clique, coterie, exclusive group
A complete series, collection, or complement
A company performing a dance
A series of dance movements or figures
A complete apparatus, esp for receiving radio or television signals
An act, process, mode, or time of setting
A setting
An inclination
A direction
The scenery, properties, etc set up for a scene (theatre, etc)
The place where filming takes place (cinematography)
Any collection of objects, called ‘elements’, defined by specifying the elements (mathematics)
The basic haploid complement of chromosomes (biology)
Habitual or temporary form, posture, carriage, position, or tendency
The items performed by a singer or band at a concert
A series of games, the winner being the first side to win at least six games and at least two games more than the opponent, usu with a tie-break played to decide the winner if the score reaches six games all (tennis)
A shot sending the cue ball against an object ball, with the aim of causing a third ball that is touching the object ball to be propelled towards a pocket (snooker)
A set hairstyle
The hang of a garment
A young cutting, bulb or tuber, for planting
A gun dog's indication of game
Bodily build (now dialect)
Permanent effect of strain
The constitution of a burgh
(for the following senses, set or sett): the number of a weaver's reed, determining the number of threads to the inch
The texture resulting
A square or a pattern of tartan
A paving-block of stone or wood
A tool for setting in various senses
A badger's burrow
A lease or letting (Scot)
A mining lease or area worked (Cornwall, etc)
A place with fixed fishing-nets

ORIGIN: OE settan; cognate with Ger setzen, ON setja, Gothic satjan; settan is the weak causative of sittan to sit; the noun is from the verb, but may be partly from OE set seat, partly from OFr sette, from L secta sect

setˈness noun

settˈer noun

Someone who or something that sets
A dog that sets
A dog of a breed derived from the spaniel and (probably) pointer
A person who finds victims for thieves, etc
A spy

settˈing noun

The act of someone who sets
The direction of current
Fixation
Surroundings
Environment
The scenery and props used in a single scene of a play, film, etc
A level of power, volume, etc, to which a machine or other device can be set
Mounting of jewellery
The period of time in which a play, novel, etc, is set
A set of cutlery, crockery and glassware laid out for use by one person
Adaptation to music
Music composed for a song, poem, etc
A system of dividing pupils in mixed-ability classes into ability groups for certain subjects only
The period of play after a game has been set (to two, three or five) (badminton)

setˈ-aside noun

(also land set-aside) the practice or policy of taking agricultural land out of production (set-aside scheme specif that introduced to reduce EU grain surpluses, with compensatory payments to farmers)

setˈback noun

A check, reverse, or relapse
A disappointment or misfortune
A receding section in the upper part of a tall building

set dancing noun

A traditional form of Irish dancing, usu involving a group of four couples in a square formation

setˈ-down noun

A rebuff or snub
A scolding

setˈline noun

Any of various kinds of fishing-line suspended between buoys, etc, and having shorter baited lines attached to it

set menu noun

A complete meal with limited options offered by a restaurant at a fixed price

setˈ-off noun

A claim set against another
A crossclaim which partly offsets the original claim
A counterbalance
An ornament
A contrast, foil
A setting forth
An offset (architecture and printing)

setˈ-out noun

An outfit
Preparations
A display of dishes, dress, etc
Company or clique

set piece noun

A piece of theatrical scenery with a supporting framework, distinguished from a side-scene or drop-scene
An elaborately arranged display in fireworks
A painstakingly prepared performance
(a carefully planned and executed piece of team-work at) a corner or free kick (football, etc)

setˈ-piece adjective

set point noun (tennis, etc)

A point which wins a set

set pot noun

A fixed boiler or copper

setˈscrew noun

A screw used to prevent relative motion by exerting pressure with its point

set speech noun

A studied oration

set square noun

A right-angled triangular drawing instrument

setˈ-stitch'd adjective (Sterne)

Perh embroidered

setter-forthˈ noun

set terms plural noun

Deliberately chosen, usu outspoken language

setter-offˈ noun

setter-onˈ noun

setter-outˈ noun

setter-upˈ noun

set theory noun (mathematics)

The investigation of the properties of sets

setting lotion noun

A lotion containing gum or resin used to fix or set a hairstyle

set-toˈ noun (pl set-tosˈ or set-to'sˈ)

A bout
A fight or argument
A fierce contest

setˈ-topˈ box noun

A device that allows a conventional television set to receive a digital signal

setˈ-up noun

The arrangement, organization, configuration or structure of anything
The place where an instrument for measuring, surveying, recording, etc is set up
A situation, the outcome of which has been prearranged, eg one in which someone is made a victim (informal)
A shot, forming part of a scene, consisting of part of the action, close-up or location, etc (film)
Bodily carriage and physique. See also set up below

dead set

Determined (on)
Indisputable (Aust sl)

set about

To begin, take in hand
To attack
To spread (rumours)

set against

To assail
To compare or balance

set (a game) to two, three or five (badminton)

To set, in the final stages of a game, a new deciding score of two, three, or five points

set alight, set light to, set fire to or set on fire

To cause to break into flame and burn

set apart

To put aside, or out of consideration
To separate, distinguish

set aside

To put away or to one side
To reject, annul
To reserve, lay by
To take (agricultural land) out of production, to leave fallow

set at naught see under naught

set back

To check, delay, hinder, reverse
To cost (in money; informal)
To place at some distance behind
To surprise, take aback

set by

To lay up
To put aside
To value or esteem, to care (archaic)

set down

To lay on the ground
To put in writing, record
To appoint a time for (Shakespeare)
To judge, esteem, regard
To snub
To pitch, encamp (Shakespeare)
To attribute, ascribe
To lay down authoritatively
To stop and allow (passengers) to alight from a taxi, bus, car, etc

set eyes on

To see, catch sight of

set fair

(of weather) steadily fair
(of future prospects, outlook, etc) settled and secure
Likely, to all appearances (to do the desired thing)

set fire to see set alight above.

set forth

To exhibit, display
To state, expound, declare
To praise, recommend
To publish
To start on a journey

set free

To release, liberate

set going

To put in motion

set hand to

To set to work on

set in

To begin
To become prevalent or established
(of wind, etc) to run landwards (nautical)

set in hand

To undertake
To set someone about doing

set little, much, etc, by

To regard or value little, much, etc

set off

To start off
To send off
To show in relief or to advantage
To counterbalance
To make an offset, mark an opposite page
To mark off, lay off

set on

To attack or incite to attack
To instigate
Bent or determined upon

set oneself

To bend one's energies

set oneself against

To oppose

set one's face against see under face

set one's hand to

To start work on, set about
To sign

set one's heart on see under heart

set one's teeth

To clench the teeth, as in strong resolution

set on fire see set alight above.

set on foot

To set going, to start

set out

To start, go forth
To display
To begin with an intention
To expound
To mark off
To adorn
To equip and send forth

set sail see under sail¹

set to

To affix
To apply oneself
To set (eg a bone) (Shakespeare)

set up

To erect
To put up
To exalt, raise up (set you, him etc up (Scot; ironic) what a cheek you've, he's, etc got!)
To arrange
To begin
To enable to begin
To place in view
To put in type
To begin a career, esp in one's own business
To make pretensions
To arrange matters so as to implicate, incriminate, embarrass or make a fool of (another person) (informal) (setˈ-up noun)

set upon

To set on
Determined on

fire /fīr/

set /set/