set znaczenie & definicja

Znaczenie set w języku polskim

• 0 to arrange a time when something will happen -- wyznaczać

  • [ often passive ] The next meeting is set for 6 February.

• 1 to decide the level of something -- ustalać

  • The interest rate has been set at 5%.

• 2 to press switches on a machine so that it will start when you want it to -- nastawiać

  • I've set the alarm for 6.30.

  • [ + to do sth ] You can set the oven to come on at any particular time.

• 3 to do something in a way that people will copy or try to improve on -- dawać przykład/ustanawiać rekord/określać standard

  • Try to set a good example to the children.

  • She's set a new world record with that jump.

• 4 to make something start burning -- podpalić coś

• 5 to allow someone to leave prison, or to allow a person or animal to escape -- uwolnić kogoś

• 6 to make something start burning -- podpalić coś

• 7 to put plates, knives, forks, etc on the table before you have a meal -- nakrywać do stołu

• 8 When the sun sets, it moves down in the sky so that it cannot be seen. -- zachodzić

  • The sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

• 9 If a liquid substance sets, it becomes solid. -- tężeć, wiązać

  • How long does cement take to set?

• 10 If you set work or an exam at a school or college, you ask the students to do it. -- zadawać, układać

  • [ + two objects ] Mr Harley forgot to set us any maths homework.

• 11 to put something somewhere -- postawić coś ( gdzieś )

  • She set the vase down on the table.

• 12 If a book, play, or movie is set in a place or period of time, the story happens there or at that time. -- osadzać

  • [ often passive ] It's a historical adventure set in India in the 1940s.

• 13 to start working -- brać się do pracy

• 14 a group of things that belong together -- zestaw, komplet, lista

  • a set of instructions/rules

  • a set of keys/tools

• 15 the place where a film or play is performed or recorded, and the pictures, furniture, etc that are used -- plan

  • They first met on the set of 'Star Wars'.

• 16 one part of a tennis match -- set

  • Nadal is leading by four games to one in the third set.

• 17 a television or radio -- odbiornik

  • a TV set

• 18 a group of songs or tunes that go together to make a musical performance -- program

• 19 a group of numbers or things -- zbiór

• 20 fixed and never changing -- stały, ustalony

  • Most people work for a set number of hours each week.

  • I have no set routine.

• 21 to be ready -- być gotowym

  • [ + to do sth ] We were all set to go when the phone rang.