Set About

Definition: Set About

Set About

Verb

1. Begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "appraoch a new project".

2. Enter upon an activity or enterprise.

3. Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?" "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Set About

Beginning

Get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set to; make a beginning, make a start.

Pursuit

Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity).

Undertaking

Take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to, set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin; broach, institute; one's (originate); put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.

Crosswords: Set About

Books

• All Set About With Fever Trees and Other Stories (reference)

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

The magistracy set about the work with good heart.

If I were to preach at all in this strain, I should say rather, Set about being good.

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Business

On January 19 of this year, the Korean Ministry of Education (MOE) set about liberalizing laws related to overseas study by primary and secondary school students. (references)

Economic History

Spain

Under Suarez, the new Cortes set about drafting a democratic constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in a December 1978 national referendum. (references)

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

Expressions using "set about": set about doing smth. ♦ set about smb. ♦ set about your work! ♦ to set about. Additional references.

Albanian

gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up), filloj (begin, come, commence, develop, embark, enter, fall into, fall on, fall to, get, get down, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, set in, set to, set up, start, strike up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, dispute, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, press, prey on, prong, rush, storm, strafe, strike), ‏ناقش (agitate, argue, bat, canvass, converse, debate, discuss, dispute, join issue with, moot, oppugn, powwow, question, speak, talk, talk over, ventilate), ‏شرع (begin, commence, fall to, legislate, proceed, set upon, start, tackle, undertake), ‏بدأ (begin, begin on smth., commence, fall to, incept, initialize, initiate, institute, launch, lead, lead off, proceed, set, set in, start, start off, tackle, take, take in, tee). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разнасям (carry, deliver, disseminate, hawk, puff, spread), нападам (assault, attack, do over, engage, fall on, fall upon, infest, insult, lunge, mob, oppugn, pitch into, rabble, sail into, set on, set upon, shape up, strike, strongarm, turn on, turn upon, walk into, zap), залавям се енергично с. (various references)

Czech

rozšířit (augment, broaden, enlarge, expand, extend, put about, scale up, spread, vulgarize, widen). (various references)

Finnish

ryhtyä (begin, embark on, engage in, enter into, go in for, resort to, set to, start, take to, take up, undertake), ruveta (begin, start, take to, take up), alkaa (begin, come on, commence, commence hostilities, enter upon, have its source, lopettaa vihollisuudet, originate, set in, start, starts). (various references)

French

se mettre � , mettre � côté, faire circuler (sell), commencer (set in, set to), attaquer. (various references)

German

hergemacht. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תחיל ב- (get going, originate, start). (various references)

Hungarian

munkába állít (to bring into action, to put on), elterjeszt (disseminate, promulgate, scatter, spread, to disperse, to disseminate, to generalize, to put about, to scatter, to universalize). (various references)

Italian

assalire (assail, assault, attack, beset, mob, raid, rankle, set upon, storm, violate), accingersi (enter on, get ready). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�意に掛かる (to set about preparations), 本腰�'入れる (to set about in earnest), 取り掛かる (to begin, to set about, 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, to set about), 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, to set about). (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, to set about), 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, to set about), ほ�"�"し�'いれる (to set about in earnest), よういにかかる (to set about preparations), とりかかる (to begin, to set about, to start). (various references)

Manx

cur laue er. (various references)

Pig Latin

etsay aboutay

Portuguese

começar com. (various references)

Romanian

se apuca de (begin, embark, fall to, follow, go at). (various references)

Russian 

приступать к (proceed with), делать (achieve, act, did, do, does, done, gamble on, made, make, perform, score). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nameriti (intend). (various references)

Spanish

ponerse a (address oneself to, knuckle down, proceed), emprender algo (begin on smth.), emprender (adopt, assume, attack, enter on, go about, go around, go at, launch, light, set out, set upon, start, tackle, take on, take over, take up, taking over, undertake), difundir (bandy about, broadcast, bruit, diffuse, promulgate, radiate, send, spread, transmit), atacar (arraign, assail, assault, attack, bite, charge, come at, commit aggression, drive, engage, get at, go for, go in, gun, light into, pitch into, plough into, prey, raid, sail into, set on, set upon, sick, slash, strike, stuff, tackle, tamp, tamp down, tamp in, walk in), agredir (assault, attack). (various references)

Swedish

störa sig över, ge sig på (fly at, turn on), gå lös på (attack, come at, turn on), bärja på. (various references)

Thai

กระจายข่าว (มักเป็นเรื่องไม่�"ี), จั�"การกับ (fix with). (various references)

Turkish

koyulmak (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, go, hop to it, launch out, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, settle down to, sit down, start, start in, start off, start out, tackle, turn to), kavgayı başlatmak, girişmek (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, buckle down to, buckle oneself to, embark, embark upon, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall to, fling, have a bash, interfere, jut into, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, pitch into, proceed, set off, set one's hand to, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, start in, start out, tackle, take a step, take the initiative, throw oneself into, undertake, venture on, venture upon, wade in, wade into), başlamak (begin, come on, commence, cut along, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get, get a move on, get going, get to, go, go off, inaugurate, introduce, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, launch out into, lay down, open, set in, set out, set to, start, start in, start off, strike in, strike up, turn to). (various references)

Ukrainian

поширювати (distribute, expand, extend, generalize, intend, noise, outstretch, promulgate, propagate, push, put about, radiate, retail, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)

insistebant, insistentes, insistere, institerit. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: battues, outeats.

-2 letters: astute, battue, beauts, bettas, buteos, buttes, obtest, obtuse, outate, outeat, outsat, outset, setout, statue, tubate.

-3 letters: abets, about, abuse, abuts, autos, baste, bates, batts, battu, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, besot, betas, betta, boast, boats, botas, botts, bouse, bouts, buteo, butes, butte, butts, sabot, saute, state, stoae, stoat, stout, sutta, tabes.

+1 letter: obturates, outbleats, tabourets.

+2 letters: absolutest, outboasted, outdebates, subtotaled.

+3 letters: abstentious, ethambutols, subtotalled, thereabouts.

+4 letters: carburettors, counterblast, tolbutamides.

+5 letters: battlegrounds, counterblasts, flutterboards, perturbations, postdebutante, quotabilities, subcontracted.