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   set

   /sɛt/

   verb

   • 1. put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position: "Delaney set the mug of tea down" Similar putplaceput downlaylay downdepositpositionsettlestationleavestowpropleanstandplantposedisposeinformal:stickdumpbungparkplonkplumppopplunkrare:posit
   • ▪ be situated or fixed in a specified place or position: "the village was set among olive groves on a hill" Similar be situatedbe locatedliestandbe sitedbe perchedbe found
   • ▪ represent (a story, play, film, or scene) as happening at a specified time or in a specified place: "a private-eye novel set in Berlin"
   • ▪ mount a precious stone in (something, typically a piece of jewellery): "a bracelet set with emeralds"
   • ▪ mount (a precious stone) in something: "a huge square-cut emerald set in platinum" Similar adornornamentdecorateembellishdeckbedeckliterary:bejewel
   • ▪ arrange (type) as required: "the compositors refused to set the type for an editorial"
   • ▪ arrange the type for (a piece of text): "article headings will be set in Times fourteen point"
   • ▪ prepare (a table) for a meal by placing cutlery, crockery, etc. on it in their proper places: "she set the table and began breakfast" Similar laypreparearrangemake ready
   • ▪ move (a bell) so that it rests in an inverted position ready for ringing: "the ringer gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or set"
   • ▪ cause (a hen) to sit on eggs: "you had to set the clucking hens"
   • ▪ put (a seed or plant) in the ground to grow: "I set the plants in shallow hollows to facilitate watering"
   • ▪ put (a sail) up in position to catch the wind: "a safe distance from shore all sails were set"
   • 2. put or bring into a specified state: "the Home Secretary set in motion a review of the law"
   • ▪ cause (someone or something) to start doing something: "the incident set me thinking"
   • ▪ instruct (someone) to do something: "he'll set a man to watch you"
   • ▪ give someone (a task or test) to do: "schools will begin to set mock tests" Similar assignallocategiveallotdealprescribe
   • ▪ establish as (an example) for others to follow, copy, or try to achieve: "the scheme sets a precedent for other companies"
   • ▪ establish (a record): "his time in the 25 m freestyle set a national record" Similar establishset upcreateprovideinstitute
   • ▪ decide on and announce: "they set a date for a full hearing at the end of February" Similar decide onselectchoosearrangeschedulefixfix ondeterminedesignatenameappointspecifystipulatesettleresolve onagree onconfirm
   • ▪ fix (a price, value, or limit) on something: "the unions had set a limit on the size of the temporary workforce"
   • 3. adjust (a clock or watch), typically to show the right time: "set your watch immediately to local time at your destination" Similar adjustregulatesynchronizecoordinateharmonizecalibrateput rightcorrecttechnical:collimate
   • ▪ adjust (an alarm clock) to sound at the required time: "I usually set my alarm clock for eight" Similar programmeactivateswitch onturn on
   • ▪ adjust (a device) so that it performs a particular operation: "you have to be careful not to set the volume too high" Similar programmeactivateswitch onturn on
   • ▪ cause (a binary device) to enter the state representing the numeral 1.
   • 4. harden into a solid or semi-solid state: "cook for a further thirty-five minutes until the filling has set" Similar solidifyhardenbecome solidbecome hardstiffenthickengelcakecongealcoagulateclotfreezecrystallizerare:gelatinizeOpposite melt
   • ▪ arrange (the hair) while damp so that it dries in the required style: "she had set her hair on small rollers"
   • ▪ put parts of (a broken or dislocated bone or limb) into the correct position for healing: "he lined up the bones and set the arm"
   • ▪ (of a bone) be restored to its normal condition by knitting together again after being broken: "children's bones soon set"
   • ▪ (with reference to a person's face) assume or cause to assume a fixed or rigid expression: "her features never set into a civil parade of attention"
   • ▪ (of a hunting dog) adopt a rigid attitude indicating the presence of game.
   • 5. (of the sun, moon, or another celestial body) appear to move towards and below the earth's horizon as the earth rotates: "the sun was setting and a warm red glow filled the sky" Similar go downsinkdeclinedescenddropsubsidedip below the horizonvanishdisappearOpposite rise
   • 6. (of a tide or current) take or have a specified direction or course: "a fair tide can be carried well past Land's End before the stream sets to the north"
   • 7. start (a fire): North American "the school had been broken into and the fire had been set"
   • 8. (of blossom or a tree) form into or produce (fruit): "wait until first flowers have set fruit before planting out the peppers"
   • ▪ (of fruit) develop from blossom: "once fruits have set, feed weekly with a high potash liquid tomato fertilizer"
   • ▪ (of a plant) produce (seed): "the herb has flowered and started to set seed"
   • 9. sit: dialect "the rest of them people just set there goggle-eyed for a minute"

   Word Origin Old Englishsettan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zetten, German setzen, also to sit.

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 3392354Append values to a set in Python - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 3392354

   Jul 18, 2022 · The OP asked about "appending" to a set, which is more correctly described as "adding" to a set or "updating" a set. Here you are "creating" a set from a union, not adding to an existing set. – PatrickT

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 2041778How to initialize HashSet values by construction?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 2041778

   Jan 11, 2010 · Here the collector would actually return the unmodifiable set introduced in Java 9 as evident from the statement set -> (Set<T>)Set.of(set.toArray()) in the source code. One point to note is that the method Collections.unmodifiableSet() returns an unmodifiable view of the specified set (as per documentation).

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 27848281How do you declare and use a Set data structure in groovysh?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 27848281

   Jan 9, 2015 · :set interpreterMode true should fix this issue. Groovy < 2.4.0 Adding a type to the variable makes it a local variable which is not available to shell's environment. use as below in groovysh. groovy:000> s = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'c'] as Set<String> ===> [a, b, c] groovy:000> s ===> [a, b, c] groovy:000> s.class ===> class java.util.LinkedHashSet ...

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 10552812Defining and using a variable in batch file - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 10552812

   6. Consider also using SETX - it will set variable on user or machine (available for all users) level though the variable will be usable with the next opening of the cmd.exe ,so often it can be used together with SET : ::setting variable for the current user. if not defined My_Var (. set "My_Var=My_Value".

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 34370599Difference between dict and set (python) - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 34370599

   Dec 19, 2015 · The syntax {1, 2, 3} for sets was introduced with Python 2.7. Since {} has been used for such a long time it will stay as the way to define an empty dictionary. If Python would have had the new set syntax since the beginning, likely an empty set would be defined with {} and an empty dictionary with {:}. edited Sep 11, 2017 at 4:34.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 5096926What is the { get; set; } syntax in C#? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 5096926

   So as I understand it { get; set; } is an "auto property" which just like @Klaus and @Brandon said is shorthand for writing a property with a "backing field." So in this case: public class Genre. {. private string name; // This is the backing field. public string Name // This is your property.

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 21197774python - Assign pandas dataframe column dtypes - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 21197774

   you can set the types explicitly with pandas DataFrame.astype(dtype, copy=True, raise_on_error=True, **kwargs) and pass in a dictionary with the dtypes you want to dtype. here's an example: import pandas as pd. wheel_number = 5. car_name = 'jeep'. minutes_spent = 4.5. # set the columns. data_columns = ['wheel_number', 'car_name', 'minutes_spent ...

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 11161248Setting JAVA_HOME - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 11161248

   Set the JAVA_HOME Variable. Windows 7 – Right click My Computer and select Properties > Advanced. Windows 8 – Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings. Windows 10 – Search for Environment Variables then select Edit the system environment variables. Click the Environment Variables button.

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 17373161Use curly braces to initialize a Set in Python - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 17373161

    Curly braces or the set () function can be used to create sets. Note: to create an empty set you have to use set (), not {}; the latter creates an empty dictionary, a data structure that we discuss in the next section. in python 2.7: Be aware that {} is also used for map / dict: One can also use comprehensive syntax to initialize sets:

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 2620862c++ - Using custom std::set comparator - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 2620862

    std::set<int, decltype(cmp)> s; We use lambda function as comparator. As usual, comparator should return boolean value, indicating whether the element passed as first argument is considered to go before the second in the specific strict weak ordering it defines. Online demo. 2. Modern C++11 solution. auto cmp = [](int a, int b) { return ...