Setter

Pronunciation

• RP: IPA: /ˈsÉ›t.É™/
• AusE: IPA: /ˈset.É™/
• GenAm: IPA: /ˈsÉ›t.Éš/
• Rhymes: -É›tÉ™(r)

set + -er

Full definition of setter

Noun

1. One who sets something, especially a typesetterThe exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
2. A long-haired breed of gundog (Setter (dog breed)).She has a spaniel and a red setter.
• 1931, w, The Norwich Victims Chapter 7/2, The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
3. (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
4. (computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
5. (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
• 2012, June 29, Kevin Mitchell, Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau, It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses.
6. One who hunts victims for sharpers.
7. One who adapts words to music in composition.
8. A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Derived terms

• English setter
• Gordon setter
• Irish red and white setter
• Irish setter
• red setter

Synonyms

• (computing) mutator

Verb

1. (UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Anagrams

• retest
• street
• tester