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I'm often asked where my nickname 'Kun' comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.
Sergio Aguero

Meaning of "set in" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SET IN

set in play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SET IN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Set in is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SET IN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of set in in the English dictionary

The first definition of set in in the dictionary is to become established. Other definition of set in is to blow or to move towards shore. Set in is also made separately and then added to a larger whole.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SET IN

set aside
set at naught
set back
set by the ears
set chisel
set designer
set down
set eyes on
set fire to
set forth
set menu
set off
set on
set on foot
set one´s cap for
set one´s face against
set one´s hand to
set one´s heart on
set one´s seal on
set one´s sights on

WORDS THAT END LIKE SET IN

cut in
fit in
get in
let in
look like something the cat brought in
opt in
put in
put the boot in
rub it in
start in
take part in
want in

Synonyms and antonyms of set in in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «set in» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SET IN

Find out the translation of set in to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of set in from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «set in» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

设置
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

establecer en
570 millions of speakers

English

set in
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

में सेट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المنصوص عليها في
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

установить в
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

definido em
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্থাপন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mettre en
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ditetapkan dalam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gesetzt in
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中に設定
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에서 설정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyetel ing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiết lập trong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அமைக்கவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध्ये सेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Içine koymak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impostato in
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

się w
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

встановити в
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stabilit în
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

που σε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stel in
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inställd i
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

satt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of set in

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SET IN»

The term «set in» is very widely used and occupies the 8.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of set in
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SET IN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «set in» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «set in» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about set in

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10 QUOTES WITH «SET IN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word set in.
1
Sergio Aguero
I'm often asked where my nickname 'Kun' comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.
2
B. R. Ambedkar
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
3
Thomas Arnold
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
4
Jamie Bamber
I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.
5
Amy Bloom
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight, color, and socially approved orientation. But it doesn't strike me as any better or more blessed or more heartwarming than when people who clearly are not a match set on the outside are so clearly meant to be together on the inside.
6
John Boyega
'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack.
7
Berkeley Breathed
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
8
Jeremy Bulloch
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet.
9
Kurt Busiek
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
10
Tom Chatfield
Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SET IN»

Discover the use of set in in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to set in and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Set in Stone
With her usual brilliance and ease, Linda Newbery has written a haunting and faultlessly plotted novel with characters that leap of the page and stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
Linda Newbery, 2010
2
Set in Darkness: An Inspector Rebus Novel
On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations.
Ian Rankin, 2010
3
Set in Stone
Lynda Graham has been fortunate in life.
Catherine Dunne, 2012
4
Set In Stone
Recovering from the tragic death of his wife, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, and her husband.Their home is a bizarre moated house deep in the Rutland countryside, known as Otherways.
Robert Goddard, 2010
5
Set in Stone: The Life & Death of Medusa
Medusa is perhaps one of the most intriguing characters in all of Mythology.
R. C. Berry, Hi-Rise Visions, 2013
6
Set in Authority
Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other.
Sara Jeannette Duncan, Germaine Warkentin, 1996
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Like Grapes of Gold Set in Silver: An Interpretation of ...
Rather, a proverb s meaning and truth are conditioned by the context. The author delimits sections which the editor(s) of the collection consciously grouped together in their present sequence.
Knut Martin Heim, 2001
8
Literary Globalism: Anglo-American Fiction Set in France
The novels studied reveal a set of diverse but related textual strategies and thematic interests that identify certain aspects of postmodern writing as characteristic both of contemporary English-language novels set in France and of a new ...
Carolyn A. Durham, 2005
9
Lamb
Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes.
Christopher Moore, 2009
10
The Chess Set in the Mirror
A boy who is being punished finds himself transported to the strange world on the other side of a mirror, where he encounters living chess pieces, as well as everything and everyone that was ever reflected in the mirror.
Massimo Bontempelli, 2007

REFERENCE
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