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TO SET ABOUT

Definition: TO SET ABOUT

TO SET ABOUT

1. To commence; to begin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SET ABOUT

English words defined with "TO SET ABOUT": To go about, To set on. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO SET ABOUT": Obstinate. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO SET ABOUT

Language Translations for "TO SET ABOUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

sich machen an (get down to, go at, set about). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nekimegy vkinek (to fall foul of sy), nekikezd (set to, to come into action, to wade in), megtámad (assail, assault, attack, combat, impugn, to advance against, to assail, to assault, to contest, to corrode, to impugn, to raid, to top off, to visit, to wade in). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

取り掛かる (to begin, to start), 乗り掛かる (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over), 乗り掛ける (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

のりかかる (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over), のりかける (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over), とりかかる (to begin, to start). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etsay aboutay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SET ABOUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-o-o-s-t-t-t-u"

-2 letters: outboast, outstate.

-3 letters: battues, outeats, seaboot, statute, tattoos, tautest.

-4 letters: astute, attest, battue, beauts, bettas, buteos, buttes, obtest, obtuse, outate, outeat, outsat, outset, setout, statue, taboos, tattoo, tubate.

-5 letters: abets, about, abuse, abuts, autos, baste, bates, batts, battu, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, besot, betas, betta, boast, boats, boost, boots, botas, botts, bouse, bouts, buteo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO SET ABOUT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      53 45 54      41 42 4F 55 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000001 01000010 01001111 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#65 &#66 &#79 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0045 0054      0041 0042 004F 0055 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449253395423536495554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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