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📖 Определения и значения для слова setting

📒 an environment where something is located; the place at which something happens

  • a rural/an ideal/a beautiful/an idyllic setting
  • setting for something It was the perfect setting for a wonderful Christmas.
  • in a setting The exhibition shows how bees can live happily in an urban setting.

📒 the place and time at which the action of a play, novel, etc. takes place

  • short stories with a contemporary setting
  • New York City is the setting of his new novel.
  • setting for something London has been used as the setting for many films.

📒 a position at which the controls on a machine can be set, to set the speed, height, temperature, etc.

  • There are three speed settings: high, medium, and low.
  • at a setting The performance of the engine was tested at different settings.
  • The oven should be at a high setting.

📒 the place on a computer or other electronic device where you can choose the way that it works or looks; the particular choices that you make

  • To change the size of the font, go to Settings.
  • It's easy to change the settings on your device.
  • All tests were run at default settings.

📒 music written to go with a poem, etc.

  • Schubert’s setting of a poem by Goethe

📒 a piece of metal in which a precious stone is fixed to form a piece of jewellery

  • a ruby in a heavy gold setting

📒 a complete set of equipment for eating with (knife, fork, spoon, glass, etc.) for one person, arranged on a table

  • a place setting
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