Crossword-Solution: SET 3 letters, 2003 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Set	imp. & p. p.	of Set
Set	v. t.	To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
Set	v. t.	Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
Set	v. t.	To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
Set	v. t.	To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.
Set	v. t.	To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
Set	v. t.	To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
Set	v. t.	To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
Set	v. t.	To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
Set	v. t.	To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
Set	v. t.	To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
Set	v. t.	To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Set	v. t.	To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
Set	v. t.	To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
Set	v. t.	To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
Set	v. t.	To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
Set	v. t.	To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
Set	v. t.	To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Set	v. t.	To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
Set	v. t.	To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
Set	v. t.	To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
Set	v. t.	To value; to rate; -- with at.
Set	v. t.	To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
Set	v. t.	To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
Set	v. t.	To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
Set	v. t.	To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
Set	v. i.	To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Set	v. i.	To fit music to words.
Set	v. i.	To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
Set	v. i.	To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
Set	v. i.	To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
Set	v. i.	To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
Set	v. i.	To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
Set	v. i.	To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
Set	v. i.	To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
Set	v. i.	To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
Set	v. i.	To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
Set	a.	Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
Set	a.	Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
Set	a.	Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
Set	a.	Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
Set	a.	Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
Set	n.	The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
Set	n.	That which is set, placed, or fixed.
Set	n.	A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
Set	n.	That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
Set	n.	Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
Set	n.	A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
Set	n.	A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
Set	n.	A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Set	n.	A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
Set	n.	A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
Set	n.	Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.
Set	n.	In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
Set	n.	The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
Set	n.	A young oyster when first attached.
Set	n.	Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
Set	n.	A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
Set	n.	That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SET	anagram	EST, ETS, STE, TES, TSE

We have 2003 clues for the answer “SET”

Clue	Answers
Fixed or established firmly	1 answer
"Collect 'em all!" collection	1 answer
"Collect them all!" focus	1 answer
"Collect them all" success	1 answer
"Game, ___ and match"	1 answer
"Go ___ a Watchman" (Harper Lee novel)	1 answer
"Love Like Woe" The Ready ___	1 answer
"On your mark, get __, . . .!"	1 answer
"On your mark, get ___, go!"	1 answer
"Quiet on the __!"	1 answer
"Quiet on the __!": director's cry	1 answer
"Quiet!" locale	1 answer
"___ Adrift On Memory Bliss" P.M. Dawn	1 answer
*Big moment in a tennis match	1 answer
*Prepares an ambush	1 answer
*Scenery for "Operation Petticoat"?	1 answer
10 reps X 3, typically	1 answer
10 reps, say	1 answer
22+ pages of the Oxford English Dictionary	1 answer
Tennis group of games	1 answer
Mathematical collection	1 answer
6-0 or 7-6, in tennis	1 answer
6-1, 5-7 or 6-4, e.g.	1 answer
6-1, in tennis	1 answer
6-2, maybe	1 answer
6-3 in tennis, e.g.	1 answer
6-3 or 7-6, e.g.	1 answer
6-3, 6-2 or 7-6	1 answer
6-3, e.g., in tennis	1 answer
6-3, in tennis	1 answer
6-4 or 6-2, e.g.	1 answer
6-4, e.g., in tennis	1 answer
6-4, for example.	1 answer
64 crayons, e.g.	1 answer
7-5, e.g.	1 answer
7-5, e.g., in tennis	1 answer
7-6 for Simona Halep, say	1 answer
81-card game	1 answer
81-card matching game	1 answer
A "quiet" place?	1 answer
Scenery on stage	1 answer
A bunch of numbers grouped together, in more than one sense	1 answer
A concert may feature one or more	1 answer
A musician might do one	1 answer
A race-starting word	1 answer
A receiver	1 answer
A revolving stage might move one	1 answer
A unit of play in tennis or squash	1 answer
Acting background	1 answer
Activate the alarm clock	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

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Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Sentences with SET (5)

When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other’s age, and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Fiercely the red sun descending Burned his way along the heavens, Set the sky on fire behind him, As war-parties, when retreating, Burn the prairies on their war-trail; And the moon, the Night-sun, eastward, Suddenly starting from his ambush, Followed fast those bloody footprints, Followed in that fiery war-trail, With its glare upon his features.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where _Pilasters_ round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want Cornice or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures grav’n, The Roof was fretted Gold.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaiming: “You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.” The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Quotes with SET (3)

There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a wa…

J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land

Pablo Neruda Selected Poems

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

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