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English
Pronunciation
Verb
setting
- present participle and gerund of set
Noun
setting (plural settings)
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- the setting of the sun
- the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- the volume setting on a television
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem
- Bach's setting of the Magnificat
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
Derived terms
Translations
time, place, circumstance
- Bengali: সেটিঙ্ (śeṭiṅ)
- Bulgarian: среда (bg) f (sreda), обстановка (bg) f (obstanovka)
- Dutch: context (nl) m
- Finnish: tapahtumapaikka, miljöö (fi)
- German: Kontext (de) m
- Hungarian: környezet (hu), keret (hu), háttér (hu), kontextus (hu), elrendezés (hu), elhelyezkedés (hu), fekvés (hu), (theater) díszlet (hu), (venue) színtér (hu), helyszín (hu), (time) idő (hu)
- Indonesian: latar (id)
- Italian: contesto (it) m, circostanza (it) f
- Japanese: 設定 (ja) (せってい, settei)
- Korean: 배경(背景) (ko) (baegyeong), 설정(設定) (ko) (seoljeong)
- Maori: opunga (of a heavenly body)
- Occitan: contèxt (oc) m, circomstància, situacion (oc), condicion (oc)
- Portuguese: ambiente (pt)
- Russian: обстано́вка (ru) f (obstanóvka)
- Scottish Gaelic: suidheachadh m
- Swedish: miljö (sv) c
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of a heavenly body: disappearance below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates
Adjective
setting (comparative more setting, superlative most setting)
- that disappears below the horizon
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
that disappears below the horizon
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English setting.
Noun
setting f or m (definite singular settinga or settingen, indefinite plural settinger, definite plural settingene)
- setting
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From setja + -ing.
Alternative forms
Noun
setting f (definite singular settinga, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)
- the act of putting, setting (something somewhere)
- the manner of putting, setting (something somewhere)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English setting.
Noun
setting m (definite singular settingen, indefinite plural settingar, definite plural settingane)
- a setting (frame, background, context, scenario)
References