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  • 1set off — verb 1. put in motion or move to act (Freq. 4) trigger a reaction actuate the circuits • Syn: ↑trip, ↑actuate, ↑trigger, ↑activate, ↑spark off, ↑ …

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  • 2set — set1 W1S1 [set] v past tense and past participle set present participle setting ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put)¦ 2¦(put into surface)¦ 3¦(story)¦ 4¦(consider)¦ 5¦(establish something)¦ 6¦(start something happening)¦ 7¦(decide something)¦ …

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  • 3set — 1 /set/ verb past tense and past participle set PUT DOWN 1 PUT (transitive always + adv/prep) to carefully put something down somewhere, especially something that is difficult to carry: set sth down/on etc: She set the tray down on a table next… …

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  • 4Set — 1. v. (setting; past and past part. set) 1 tr. put, lay, or stand (a thing) in a certain position or location (set it on the table; set it upright). 2 tr. (foll. by to) apply (one thing) to (another) (set pen to paper). 3 tr. a fix ready or in… …

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  • 5set — 1. v. (setting; past and past part. set) 1 tr. put, lay, or stand (a thing) in a certain position or location (set it on the table; set it upright). 2 tr. (foll. by to) apply (one thing) to (another) (set pen to paper). 3 tr. a fix ready or in… …

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  • 6set someone off — cause someone to start doing something, esp. laughing or talking anything will set him off laughing …

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  • 7Laughing Colors — is a rock band from Baltimore/Washington DC. Members*Dave Tieff (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) *Will Dorsey, Jr. (drums) *Dan Welsh (bass) *Corey Hall (lead guitar and backup vocals)Band historyWhen the current lineup of Laughing Colors (who now go …

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  • 8Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye — or The Lame Fox is a Serbian fairy tale collected by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources , number 40. Andrew Lang included it in The Grey Fairy Book .ynopsisA man once always had one eye weeping and the other …

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  • 9set somebody off (doing something) — ˌset sb ˈoff (doing sth) derived to make sb start doing sth such as laughing, crying or talking Main entry: ↑setderived …

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  • 10Laughing Gas (novel) — Infobox Book | name = Laughing Gas title orig = translator = image caption = author = P. G. Wodehouse cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Comic novel publisher = Herbert Jenkins release date = 25 September …

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