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

(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)

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

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

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

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