setter

IPA: sˈɛtɝ

noun

  • A typesetter.
  • One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
  • A long-haired breed of gundog.
  • (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
  • (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
  • (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
  • One who hunts victims for sharpers.
  • One who adapts words to music in composition.
  • A shallow seggar for porcelain.
  • (UK, slang, obsolete) A shill bidder at an auction.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
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Examples of "setter" in Sentences

  • Experiment ultimately is the trend setter, which is as it should be.
  • Other lives: Former teachers' union leader and Guardian crossword setter
  • The setter is a Type I diabetic, forcing him to "shoot up with needles four times a day."
  • Okay check out this analogy: the Rift's campaign is like bowing without the automatic pin setter-upper-thing.
  • Janie is— Claudia stopped, overwhelmed by the task of trying to describe Janie in terms the setter would understand.
  • Eleven dogs pounded the course, and the $300 top prize went to Count Gladstone IV, a white, black, and tan Llewellin setter who sired a line of national champions.
  • Obviously having a name setter and a setName one is not very DRY, the comment was more about that, if you want, you can have fluent interfaces and POJO like methods (Yes, it is not very advisable)
  • Yes | No | Report from thomas j jerko wrote 18 weeks 1 day ago alex, my gordon setter is a super smart hunter, i'v seen him quarter on a running pheasant, cut the bird off and hold it on point, he hunts grouse, pheasant, wood cock, with ease, he was raised on quail (pen raised, none here in pa to hunt) as far as the towel goes. the only towel he want's to escape is the one i use to dry him off after a wet day afield.

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