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TO SET BY

Definition: TO SET BY

TO SET BY

1. (a) To set apart or on one side; to reject. (b) To attach the value of (anything) to. ``I set not a straw by thy dreamings.'' --Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SET BY

English words defined with "TO SET BY": By the earsTo set of. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO SET BY": ParadigmShowbreadThemis. (references)

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Expression: TO SET BY

Expression using "TO SET BY": To set by the compass. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: TO SET BY

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

Hungarian

  

félretesz (allocate, cast aside, discard, lay aside, lay by, move away, pigeon-hole, put aside, put off, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set sg by, to shelve, to throw off), félrerak (put aside, to set apart, to set aside). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etsay ybay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SET BY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-o-s-t-t-y"

-1 letter: obtest.

-2 letters: besot, botts, bytes, obeys, testy, totes, yetts.

-3 letters: best, bets, beys, bots, bott, boys, byes, byte, obes, obey, oyes, sett, stet, stey, stob, stye, sybo, test, tets, toby, toes, tost, tote, tots, toys, tyes, yett, yobs.

-4 letters: bet, bey, bos, bot, boy, bye, bys, obe, oes, ose, set, sob, sot, soy, sty.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-o-s-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: stylobate.

 

+3 letters: botrytises, boycotters, keybuttons, stylobates, tuberosity, yottabytes.

 

+4 letters: antiobesity, obstinately, postpuberty.

 

+5 letters: bellybuttons, biosynthetic, bottomlessly, erythorbates, erythroblast, thrombocytes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO SET BY


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

54 4F      53 45 54      42 59

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

        

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#66 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0045 0054      0042 0059

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

5449253395423659

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INDEX

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


  

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