to set
- verb
- /sɛt/
- As I watched the sun set, the sky turned beautiful shades of orange and pink.
- the sun set
- rises and sets
Examples
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As one constellation rises, the other has just set, as we see them from the Northern Hemisphere.
Academic text (1999) -
The sun will set behind the mountains at 6:45 PM.
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I got to admit, as the sun started to set I got real nervous.
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The sun was never going to set, staying in the sky until well past midnight.
Academic text (1993) -
When the sun sets, and the cattle come back I think of you.
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- The sun sets at 7:32.
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"It will be bittersweet each morning when I see the sunrise and then watch it set."
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The sun rises, the sun sets: the diurnal upcoming becoming the nocturnal downgoing.
Academic text (2017) -
The children gathered at the beach to see the sun set over the ocean.
Synonyms
To move below the horizon, like the sun at sunset
To disappear from view as it goes below the line where the sky meets land or sea
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To begin working very hard and not give up on a difficult task
- Archaic
To cause great excitement or a big effect, often said to mean something is not impressive
Phrasal Verbs
To let a person or animal go after keeping them in a place where they could not leave
- Informal
To make a place feel a certain way with lights, music, or decorations
- Informal
To make someone look guilty for something they did not do by tricking other people
- Specialized
To create a fake target to attract and find people who attack or steal data
To put temporary barriers on a road to slow or send traffic another way
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of letters, numbers, and symbols used for writing and showing text
- Specialized
A set of complex numbers that makes a very detailed, repeating shape when drawn on a graph
- Archaic
A machine like a radio that receives and makes broadcast signals stronger
A basketball move in which a player stands still and uses both hands to put the ball in the basket
- Specialized
A group of connected home devices like lights or speakers you control together
- Specialized
A computer design where the main processor runs many built-in instructions
- Specialized
A computer design where the processor runs many complex commands directly in hardware
- Archaic
A simple early radio that uses a crystal to receive signals without a battery
- Specialized
A set of 128 basic computer characters for letters, numbers, symbols, and control codes
A set of matching furniture for a room where people sit and relax, like a sofa and chairs
- UK
A toy with metal strips, plates, and wheels you join with nuts and bolts to build moving models
- Specialized
A computer design that uses a small set of simple commands to work faster
- Specialized
A computer design using a small set of simple instructions for faster processors that use less power
- Specialized
A fixed group of words that mean something different from the words alone
- Specialized
All the things we consider in a math problem, including every smaller group
- Specialized
Climbing gear that has a safety strap and two metal clips for via ferrata routes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Set (of the sun or moon) comes from the old idea of the sun 'sitting' down, since set is related to sit and seat; people imagined the sun going down like a person sitting. So when the sun sets it moves below the horizon and disappears from view.