TO SET OUT

Definition: TO SET OUT

TO SET OUT

1. (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To adorn; to embellish. An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden. (d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.] The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war. --Addison. (e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off. I could set out that best side of Luther. --Atterbury. (f) To show; to prove. [R.] ``Those very reasons set out how heinous his sin was.'' --Atterbury. (g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO SET OUT

Menhaden fishing - beginning to set out the nets in purse seining operation. Credit: Fisheries.

Yucca, Arizona. A local Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad train stopping to set out a car. Credit: Library of Congress.

Topock, Arizona. A local freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California stopping at a border town to set out some cars. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

But as families increased, and industry inlarged their stocks, their possessions inlarged with the need of them; but yet it was commonly without any fixed property in the ground they made use of, till they incorporated, settled themselves together, and built cities; and then, by consent, they came in time, to set out the bounds of their distinct territories, and agree on limits between them and their neighbours; and by laws within themselves, settled the properties of those of the same society: for we see, that in that part of the world which was first inhabited, and therefore like to be best peopled, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks, and their herds, which was their substance, freely up and down; and this Abraham did, in a country where he was a stranger. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Marius had asked his grandfather again for permission to make a short journey, adding that he intended to set out that evening.

There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Danish

udplante (to plant out), plante ud (to plant out). (various references)

Dutch

uitzetten (cut, cut a connection, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off), uitpoten (to plant out), uitplanten (drill, to plant out, transplanting). (various references)

Finnish

istuttaa avomaalle (to plant out). (various references)

French

prévoir et autoriser les recettes et les dépenses (to set out forecasts of), préciser les conditions de l'offre dans un document (to set out the content of the offer document), exposer l'avis de...dans son rapport (to set out the views of...). (various references)

German

auspflanzen (plant out). (various references)

Greek 

προβλέπω και επιτρέπω τα έσοδα και έξοδα (and authorize, revenue and expenditure, to set out forecasts of). (various references)

Hungarian

kijelöl (allot, appoint, assign, designate, doom, lay out, mark off, mark out, situate, tell off, to appoint, to assign, to designate, to fix on, to lay out, to mark out, to reassign, to trace out), útnak indul (hit the pike, start off, to get under headway, to get under weigh, to set forth, to set off, to set off on a journey, to set sail, to start off on a journey, to start on one's journey, to start on one's way), bizonyít (attest, aver, demonstrate, evidence, evince, prove, testify, to argufy, to attest, to aver, to confirm, to demonstrate, to evidence, to evince, to infer, to make good, to prove, to purport, to substantiate), díszít (adorn, attire, deck, decorate, embellish, enrich, garnish, ornament, ornate, to adorn, to braid, to deck, to decorate, to embellish, to emblazon, to embroider, to festoon, to garnish, to gimp, to grace, to inlay, to instar, to ornament, to primp, to spangle, to stud, to vandyke), előrajzol (to delineate, to touch, to trace), elhatároz (conclude, decide, determine, make up one's mind, to decree, to determine, to fix on, to make a resolution, to set forth), ékesít (deck, decorate, to adorn, to deck, to ornament), kiültet (plant out, prick off, set out), spáciumoz, kitűz (to appoint, to envisage, to mark out, to uprear), kitesz (add up to, amount to, display, expel, expose, put out, set out, throw out, to can, to display, to expel, to put through), megállapít (ascertain, assess, determine, diagnose, diagnosticate, identify, pre-ordain, to allocate, to appoint, to assess, to determine, to diagnose, to lay down general rules, to premise, to quote, to state, to tax, to time), nyomdokol, rendszerez (methodize), ritkít (Interspace, rarefy, to attenuate, to rarefy, to space, to thin), felsorol (enumerate, specialize, specify, to enumerate, to list, to recite, to rehearse). (various references)

Italian

prevedere e autorizzare le entrate e le spese (and authorize, revenue and expenditure, to set out forecasts of), precisare le condizioni dell'offerta in un documento (to set out the content of the offer document), illustrare nella sua relazione il parere di... (to set out the views of...). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"ち出す (to beat, to begin, to close, to end, to hammer out, to work out), 乗り出す (to begin to ride, to embark on, to lean forward, to set sail), 出掛ける (to be going out, to depart, to go out, to start), 出かける (to be going out, to depart, to go out, to start). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うち� す (to beat, to begin, to close, to end, to hammer out, to work out), のり� す (to begin to ride, to embark on, to lean forward, to set sail), でかける (to be going out, to depart, to go out, to start). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay etsay outay

Portuguese

prever e autorizar as receitas e as despesas (and authorize, revenue and expenditure, to set out forecasts of). (various references)

Spanish

prever y autorizar los ingresos y los gastos (and authorize, revenue and expenditure, to set out forecasts of), exponer los antecedentes de hecho (to set out antecedents, to set out the factual history), exponer las conclusiones (to set out closing arguments), exponer en su dictamen la opinión de... (to set out the views of...). (various references)

Swedish

plantera ut (bed out, plant out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: outset, setout.

-3 letters: ottos, stout, toots, totes, touse, touts.

-4 letters: oots, otto, oust, outs, sett, soot, stet, suet, test, tets, toes, toot, tost, tote, tots, tout, tuts.

-5 letters: oes, oot, ose, out, set, sot, sou, sue, tet, toe, too, tot, tut, use, uts.

+3 letters: autorotates.

+4 letters: ostentatious, tortuosities.

+5 letters: quattrocentos.

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