umsetzen

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German

Etymology

From um- +‎ setzen.

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Verb

umsetzen (weak, third-person singular present setzt um, past tense setzte um, past participle umgesetzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to implement, to realize
  2. to transform, translate, convert, transpose
    • 1888, Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer, Kleinere Schriften, volume 2, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, pages 139–140:
      Schlimmer noch als diese Unterlassungs- sind die Begehungssünden vorwitziger Fälscher, die da, wo ihnen das Verständnis ausgeht, sich auf’s Geratewohl einen Sinn zurechtlegen und ein eigenes Gemächt in den Text einschmuggeln, oder mindestens Alterthümliches und Schweres in Neueres und Leichteres umsetzen.
      Worse yet than these omission sins are the commission sins of impertinent shammers who, there where their understanding is depleteted, arrange on the offchance some sense and smuggle an own fabrication into the text, or at the least convert the archaic and difficult into something newer and easier.

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