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settingnoun the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surroundedthe novice camper felt lost outside of his familiar urban setting ambient, atmosphere, climate, clime, context, contexture, environment, environs, medium, milieu, mise-en-scène, surround, surroundings, terrain location, place, position, spacebackdrop, backgroundelementsituation, statusgeography, habitatmicroenvironment the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is setthe setting for the novel is Victorian England background, locale, scene backdrop, scenery, setmise-en-scène, tableau to cover and warm eggs as the young inside developthe hen set for days brooding, hatching, incubating, sitting laying, spawning to decide upon (the time or date for an event) usually from a position of authorityset a date for the wedding appointing, designating, fixing, naming adopting, assigning, choosing, determining, establishing, opting (for), picking, pinning (down), preferring, selecting, settling, singling (out), specifyingarranging, coordinating, orchestratingadvertising, announcing, declaring, publishing to make an approximate or tentative judgment regardingfire losses were set at a million dollars appraising, assessing, estimating, evaluating, guesstimating, rating, valuating, valuing adjudging, deeming, judgingascertaining, determining, discovering, learningpricing, prizingdeciding, settlinganalyzing, assaying, surveying, testingreappraising, reassessing, reevaluating(or re-evaluating), rejudging, revaluingtransvaluating, transvaluingmisesteeming, misjudging, misprizing, underestimating, undervaluing chiefly dialectto rest on the buttocks or haunchescome over and set for a spell sitting perchinglounging, slouching, sprawling, squatting, straddling arising, getting up, rising, standing to point or turn (something) toward a target or goaldetermined to see the West, she set her car towards the sun and drove off aiming, bending, casting, directing, heading, holding, leveling(or levelling), pinpointing, training sightingbearing, facingconcentrating, focusing(also focussing)inclining, orienting, steering averting, curving, deflecting, detouring, diverting, rechanneling, shunting, sidetracking to come to an agreement or decision concerning the details offinally set some plans for the luncheon agreeing (on), arranging, deciding, fixing, settling contracting, pledging, promisingblueprinting, calculating, charting, concerting, designing, drafting, framing, hammering out, intriguing, laying out, maneuvering, mapping (out), planning, programming(or programing), schematizing, scheming, shaping, squaring away, working outchoosing, concluding, determining, figuring, opting, resolvingaffirming, approving, authorizing, clearing, confirming, OK'ing(or okaying), sanctioning, warrantingclosing, completing, ending, finalizing, finishing, rounding (off or out), winding up, wrapping upbargaining, chaffering, dealing, dickering, haggling, horse-trading, negotiating disposing of aborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, repealing, rescinding, revokingdiffering (over), disagreeing (with)countering, debating, objecting, opposing, protesting, resistingcontesting, disputing to put securely in place or in a desired positionhad the jeweler set the diamond again anchoring, catching, clamping, fastening, fixing, hitching, mooring, securing embedding(also imbedding), entrenching(also intrenching), implanting, ingraining(also engraining), lodging, stuffing, wedging loosening, loosing, unfastening, unfixing, unloosening, unloosing extracting, prizing, prying, pulling, rooting (out), tearing (out), uprooting, wresting, yanking to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jellythe gelatin is just starting to set now clotting, coagulating, congealing, gelating, gelatinizing, gelling, jelling, jellying caking, concreting, firming (up), fixing, freezing, hardening, indurating, solidifying, stiffeningcondensing, thickeningclumping, curding, curdling, gumming, lumping (up) deliquescing, fluxing, fusing, liquefying(also liquifying), melting, thawing to arrange something in a certain spot or positionset a book on the table deposing, depositing, disposing, emplacing, fixing, laying, placing, positioning, putting, setting up, situating, sticking moving, rearranging, reordering, shiftingorientingestablishing, locating, planting, settlingclapping, flopping, planking, plopping, plumping, plunking(or plonking), plunking down(or plonking down), slappingensconcing, nichingassembling, collectingcarryingberthing, parkingaffixing, anchoring, locking, lodging, wedgingarraying, laying out, lining up, queuing(or queueing), rankingsetting down relocating, removing, takingbanishingdislodging, displacing, replacing, superseding, supplanting to become physically firm or solidthe concrete must set completely before anyone can walk on it concreting, congealing, firming (up), freezing, hardening, indurating, solidifying caking, callusing, encrusting(also incrusting)clotting, coagulating, gelating, gelatinizing, gelling, jelling, jellying, stiffening, thickeningcalcifying, crystallizing(also crystalizing), ossifying, petrifying, rigidifyingannealing, case-hardening, tempering liquefying(also liquifying), softening deliquescing, dissolving, fluxing, fusing, melting, smelting, thawing, unfreezing n.background, setting, environment, milieu, mise-en-scène mean the place, time, and circumstances in which something occurs.background often refers to the circumstances or events that precede a phenomenon or development.the shocking decision was part of the background of the riots setting suggests looking at real-life situations in literary or dramatic terms.a militant reformer who was born into an unlikely social setting environment applies to all the external factors that have a formative influence on one's physical, mental, or moral development.the kind of environment that produces juvenile delinquents milieu applies especially to the physical and social surroundings of a person or group of persons.an intellectual milieu conducive to artistic experimentation mise-en-scène strongly suggests the use of properties to achieve a particular atmosphere or theatrical effect.a gothic thriller with a carefully crafted mise-en-scène in the 14th century |