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101stage setting — setting (def. 6). Also, stage set. * * * …
102phototype setting — setting type for printing using a photographic process …
103setting circle — noun Date: 1869 a graduated scale or wheel on the mounting of an equatorial telescope for indicating right ascension or declination …
104setting-up exercise — noun Date: circa 1900 any of a series of gymnastic exercises used to give an erect carriage, supple muscles, and easy control of the limbs …
105Setting tone — Authors set a Tone in literature by conveying an emotion/feeling or emotions/feelings through words. The way a person feels about an idea/concept, event, or another person can be quickly determined through facial expressions, gestures and in the… …
106setting — used to describe the process of putting a net out, e.g. a trawl into the sea, a gillnet in a lake. Also called paying away and laying out …
107setting of the sculls — a tradition at a fisherman s wedding where the bride s female friends arranged the bridegroom s lines in the scull for his first fishing trip as a a married man (Scottish dialect) …
108setting shot — a split shot used on float rigs. It is attached 15 20 cm away from the hook when that stretch of line is lying on the bottom. When a fish takes the bait, it lifts the shot off the bottom and the extra weight is transferred to the float which… …
109setting the hook — pulling up on a fishing rod to drive the hook home in a biting fish. Fish may easily recognise an artificial fly as not being food and spit it out or may be wary of baits …
110setting-up exercises — /set ing up / any of various exercises, as deep knee bends and push ups, for improving one s posture, muscle tone, or limberness, or for reducing one s weight. Also called set ups. [1895 1900] * * * …
