set type (verb)

  • 21o|ver|set — «verb. OH vuhr SEHT; noun. OH vuhr SEHT», verb, set, set|ting, noun. –v.t. 1. to upset; overturn: »The boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north (Jonathan Swift). 2. to overthrow …

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  • 22Irregular verb — In contrast to regular verbs, irregular verbs are those verbs that fall outside the standard patterns of conjugation in the languages in which they occur.When comparing languages, one measure often brought into play as one of the few quantitative …

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  • 23Guess-the-verb — Guess the verb, or guess the noun, is a problem sometimes encountered in text adventure or interactive fiction computer games which have a strict or lacking command set. Usually a game has two or more verbs for an action involving a special… …

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  • 24Deponent verb — In linguistics, a deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. A deponent verb doesn t have active forms; it can be said to have deposited them (into oblivion).… …

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  • 25Regular verb — A regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical grammatical inflections of the language it belongs to.A verb that cannot be conjugated like this is called an irregular verb. All natural languages, to different extents, have a… …

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  • 26Object–subject–verb — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alig …

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  • 27Li|no|type — «LY nuh typ», noun, verb, typed, typ|ing. –n. Trademark. a typesetting machine that is operated like a typewriter and that casts each line of type in one piece. –v.t. to set with a Linotype. ╂[American English (originally) line o type line of… …

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  • 28pho|to-off|set — «FOH toh F seht, OF », noun, verb, set, set|ting. –n. a process of printing in which a page of type, a picture, or other matter is photographed and the image then transferred to a specially sensitized lithographic plate and printed by offset;… …

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  • 29se|ro|type — «SEHR uh typ», noun, verb, typed, typ|ing. –n. a group of bacteria or other microorganisms that have the same combination of antigens. –v.i. to type microorganisms by the set of antigens they have in common; classify according to serotype: »[Of]… …

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  • 30kar|y|o|type — «KAR ee oh typ», noun, verb, typed, typ|ing. Genetics. –n. 1. the character of a set of chromosomes as defined by their arrangement, number, size, shape, or other characteristics. 2. a group of chromosome sets having one or more such… …

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