setter
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See also: Setter
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛt.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈset.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛt.ɚ/, [-ɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: set‧ter
Etymology 1
From Middle English settere, equivalent to set + -er. Compare West Frisian setter, Dutch zetter, German Low German Setter, German Setzer.
The hunting dogs are so named because when they scent the game, they set (that is, strike a certain stance).
Noun
setter (plural setters)
- A typesetter.
- Synonym: compositor
- Any query to the setter is required to be addressed as such (e.g., "Setter: Please check"); otherwise it will be treated as a query to the author.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- The setter of this crossword has been known to throw us all for a loop occasionally.
- 2000, Rita Wicks-Nelson, Allen C. Israel, Behavior Disorders of Childhood, page 188:
- In this sample, twenty of the twenty-seven fire setters received a primary or secondary diagnosis of conduct disorder, compared with only eleven of twenty-seven nonsetters.
- Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
- Hyponym: Irish setter
- Coordinate terms: pointer, retriever
- She has a spaniel and a red setter.
- 1931, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims:
- The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 November 2016:
- It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked [Julien] Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in [Roger] Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- O, 'tis our setter. I know his voice
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.[1]
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A shill bidder at an auction.
Derived terms
- English setter
- form setter
- Gordon setter
- Irish red and white setter
- Irish setter
- jet-setter
- Laverack setter
- Llewellin setter
- pacesetter
- pinsetter
- red setter
- route setter
- setter-up
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
one who sets something
breed of dog
volleyball player
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References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “setter”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)
References
- 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines
- “setter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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