setting
/ˈsɛtɪŋ/ noun B1- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting (various senses). · the setting of the sun· the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A level or placement to which a knob or control is set. · the volume setting on a television
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music). · Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem· Bach's setting of the Magnificat
Plural settings
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It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.
Our next view of him shall be as he descends the steps of his lodging-house immaculately and correctly clothed; calm, assured, handsome—in appearance the typical New York young clubman setting out, slightly bored, to inaugurate the pleasures of the evening.
Only in this way can I make the reader appreciate the people concerned and the strange setting in which their fate was cast.
Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means of destroying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage.
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