settings

nounscene, background

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noun scene, background

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setup

noun. accompaniments for alcoholic beverages

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "fact or action of setting (something), putting, placing, planting," verbal noun from set (v.).

Meaning "place, location, site" is late 14c. Surgical sense, with reference to broken bones, etc., is from early 15c. In reference to heavenly bodies, from c.1400. Also in Middle English "act of creation; thing created" (c.1400). In reference to mounts for jewels, etc. from 1815; meaning "background, history, environment" is attested from 1841.

Example Sentences for settings

The door and windows have quarrelled desperately with their settings.

It gave the location of switches—the settings for communications.

If possible, change the settings for “cursive” and “fantasy” to fonts of your choice.

These settings will also help other web pages display as intended.

During our absence he had been occupied in removing the stolen jewels from their settings.

There were no long waits caused by the settings of scenes during the acts.

It is about what I imagined—but the settings are not included?

In his plots, O. Henry is romantic; in his settings he is a realist.

These stones had all been broken from their settings, and thrown loose in the chest.

Nope, I was too anxious—hurried too much on the settings of the slow verniers.

settings

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Synonyms for settings

setup