set - verb

1. To deposit in a specified place: lay, place, put, stick. See place. rise.
2. To put in or assign to a certain position or location: emplace, install, locate, place, position, site, situate, spot. See place.
3. To alter for proper functioning: adjust, fix, regulate, tune(up). Music attune. See change. help.
4. To arrange tableware upon (a table) in preparation for a meal: lay, spread. See order.
5. To place (a story, for example) in a designated setting: lay. See place.
6. To bring about or come to an agreement concerning: arrange, conclude, fix, negotiate, settle. See agree.
7. To appoint and send to a particular place: assign, post, station. See place.
8. To calculate approximately: approximate, estimate, place, put, reckon. See precise.
9. To move (a weapon or blow, for example) in the direction of someone or something: aim, cast, direct, head, level, point, train, turn, zero in. Military lay. See seek.
10. To change or be changed from a liquid into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass: clot, coagulate, congeal, curdle, gelatinize, jell, jelly. See solid.
11. To make or become physically hard: cake, concrete, congeal, dry, harden, indurate, petrify, solidify. See solid.

set about - phrasal verb

1. To go about the initial step in doing (something): approach, begin, commence, embark, enter, get off, inaugurate, initiate, institute, launch, lead off, open, set out, set to, start, take on, take up, undertake. Informal kick off. See start.

set apart - phrasal verb

1. To make noticeable or different: characterize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, individualize, mark, signalize, singularize. See same.

set aside - phrasal verb

1. To put an end to, especially formally and with authority: abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, vitiate, void. Law extinguish. See continue.

set back - phrasal verb

1. To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired: delay, detain, hang up, hold up, lag, retard, slow(down or up), stall. See help. time.

set by - phrasal verb

1. To reserve for the future: keep, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, save(up). See keep. save.

set down - phrasal verb

1. To register in or as if in a book: book, catalog, enroll, inscribe, list, write down. See remember.
2. To come to rest on the ground: alight, land, light, settle, touch down. See move.

set forth - phrasal verb

1. To state, as an idea, for consideration: advance, offer, pose, propose, propound, put forward, submit, suggest. See offer.

set off - phrasal verb

1. To be the cause of: bring, bring about, bring on, cause, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, result in, secure, stir(up), touch off, trigger. See start.
2. To stir to action or feeling: egg on, excite, foment, galvanize, goad, impel, incite, inflame, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, spur, stimulate, touch off, trigger, work up. See cause. excite.
3. To endow with beauty and elegance by way of a notable addition: adorn, beautify, embellish, enhance, grace. See beautiful.
4. To act as an equalizing weight or force to: balance, compensate, counteract, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, make up, offset. See order.
5. To make up for: balance, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, neutralize, offset, outweigh, redeem. See substitute.

set out - phrasal verb

1. To go about the initial step in doing (something): approach, begin, commence, embark, enter, get off, inaugurate, initiate, institute, launch, lead off, open, set about, set to, start, take on, take up, undertake. Informal kick off. See start.
2. To work out and arrange the parts or details of: blueprint, design, lay out, map(out), plan. See planned.
3. To proceed in a specified direction: bear, go, head, make, strike out. See approach.

set to - phrasal verb

1. To go about the initial step in doing (something): approach, begin, commence, embark, enter, get off, inaugurate, initiate, institute, launch, lead off, open, set about, set out, start, take on, take up, undertake. Informal kick off. See start.

set up - phrasal verb

1. To raise upright: erect, pitch, put up, raise, rear, upraise, uprear. See horizontal. rise.
2. To bring into existence formally: constitute, create, establish, found, institute, organize, originate, start. See start.
3. To pay for the food, drink, or entertainment of (another): treat. Informal stand. Slang blow. See pay.

set - adjective

1. Firmly established by long standing: confirmed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, entrenched, hard-shell, ineradicable, ingrained, inveterate, irradicable, settled. See continue.
2. In a definite and final form; not likely to change: certain, firm, fixed, flat. See change.
3. Fixed and distinct from others: express, particular, special, specific. See specific.
4. On an unwavering course of action: bent, decided, determined, fixed, intent, resolute. See decide.
5. In a state of preparedness: ready. Informal go. Slang together. See prepared.

set - noun

1. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit: array, band, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, group, knot, lot, party. See group.
2. A subdivision of a larger group: category, class, classification, order. See group.
3. A group of people sharing an interest, activity, or achievement: circle, crowd, group. See group.
4. A particular social group: circle, clique, coterie, crowd. Informal bunch, gang. See group.
5. The properties, backdrops, and other objects arranged for a dramatic presentation: mise en scène, scene, scenery, setting. See performing arts.