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TO SET IN

Definition: TO SET IN

TO SET IN

1. To put in the way; to begin; to give a start to. [Obs.] If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. --Collier.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SET IN

English words defined with "TO SET IN": AdightBetrimfirstinaugural, initiative, initiatoryKeevemaidenPillorizeTo set against. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO SET IN": assembler-insulatorBring into PlayInauguratelarge capitalMOLD OPERATORVis Inertiae. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO SET IN": AphthaeBarmecideEpenthesisInsoulObstinateShowbread. (references)

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Use in Literature: TO SET IN

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Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I would advise you to set in the spade down yonder among the groundnuts, where you see the johnswort waving.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO SET IN

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Civil Liberties

Guyana

In early March, the GHRA called on the media to set in place more effective forms of self-regulation and stated that without effective intervention from within or without, the misuse of television broadcasts would expand with negative consequences for society. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: TO SET IN

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Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The pay masters of our Army and the pursers of our Navy may under like pretenses apply to their own use moneys appropriated to set in motion the public force, and in time of war leave the country without defense.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: TO SET IN

Expression using "TO SET IN": To set in order. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: TO SET IN

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

German

  

einsetzen (appoint, begin, bring into action, bring into play, come in, come on, constitute, deploy, employ, enter, enthrone, exert, fit in, gamble, implant, inaugurate, insert, inset, install, invest, lay on, let, let in, move in, play, ply, put away, put in, put on, reinsert, risk, send in, send on, set, set in, set up, stake, start, stow, to constitute, to enthrone, to insert, to instate, to patch, to reinsert, use), beginnen (begin, commence, do, enterprise, inaugurate, initiate, kick off, open, plan, scheme, set about, start, start off, start out, to begin (began, to commence, to initiate, to start, to start (for)). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

part felé folyik (tengervíz), kezdődik (began, begun, to begin, to commence, to restart), kezd (began, begin, begun, commence, set in, start, to begin, to commence, to take the water, to throw off, to turn it on), bevet (apply, plant, put under, sow, sowed, sown, to crop, to seed, to sow), beilleszt (impact, let in, to adopt to, to fit in, to incase, to inlay, to insert, to insert in, to interlock, to let in), beáll (to enrol, to enroll, to hire in, to hire on, to supervene). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

来る (to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to be due to, to be forthcoming, to be next, to become, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to get, to grow), 入る (to accommodate, to break into, to come in, to contain, to enroll, to enter, to flow into, to get in, to go in, to have, to hold, to join, to set). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to wind), いる (to be, to boil down, to broil, to cast, to coin, to come in, to exist, to fire, to flow into, to fry, to get in, to go in, to mint, to need, to parch, to roast, to set, to shoot). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etsay inay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO SET IN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: toniest.

Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: sitten, stotin, teston.

-2 letters: eosin, inset, neist, netts, nites, noise, notes, onset, senti, seton, stein, steno, stint, stone, tents, tines, tints, toits, tones, totes.

-3 letters: eons, into, ions, nest, nets, nett, nite, nits, noes, nose, note, ones, sent, sett, sine, site, snit, snot, sone, stet, tens, tent, test, tets, ties, tine, tins, tint.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: fistnote, jettison, nepotist, noisette, snottier, stenotic, stoniest, tenorist, teosinte, tinstone, tonetics, tontines, tritones.

 

+2 letters: antidotes, besotting, cornetist, dottiness, fetations, fistnotes, gestation, impotents, intonates, jettisons, knottiest, monteiths, nepotists, noisettes, nontheist, obstinate, obtesting, ointments, petitions, pointiest, quotients, siltstone, snootiest, snottiest, snoutiest, sostenuti, stationed, stationer, stockinet, taconites, tectonics, tectonism, tenorists, tenorites, teosintes, testimony, thionates, thorniest, tinstones, trotlines.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO SET IN


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

54 4F      53 45 54      49 4E

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

        

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

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0045 0054      0049 004E

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

5449253395424348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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