Usually means: Collection of distinct, well-defined objects.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. set: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Set, set, set, set: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. set, set: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. set: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Set, set: Vocabulary.com
  6. Set, set: Wordnik
  7. set: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Set, set: Wiktionary
  9. set: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. set: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. set: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SET: Dictionary.com
  13. set (adj.), set (n.), set (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. set: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SET (MYTHOLOGY), SET, SeT, Set (Deity), Set (Serpent God), Set (Thompson Twins album), Set (abstract data type), Set (card game), Set (cards), Set (category theory), Set (comics), Set (command), Set (computer science), Set (computing), Set (darts), Set (deity), Set (disambiguation), Set (drama), Set (game), Set (god), Set (math), Set (mathematics), Set (music), Set (mythology), Set (psychology), Set (serpent god), Set (tennis), Set, The Set (Australian TV series), The Set (film), The set: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Set: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. set: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. set: Rhymezone
  19. set, set, set (de), set (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. set: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SET: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. SET: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. set: Free Dictionary
  24. set: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. set, set(t): Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. set: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Warhammer Dwarven Word List (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  7. set-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  8. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  9. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. set: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Numa DERIVATIVES ACRONYMS (No longer online)
  4. SET: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Set (math), Set (mathematics), Set (music), set: Legal dictionary
  8. SET, Set (math), Set (mathematics): Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. SET, set: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SET: Netlingo
  3. set: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. set: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  6. SET (Secure Electronic Transaction): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Set (math), Set (mathematics), set: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Set (math), Set (mathematics), set, set-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. SET: Acronym Finder
  5. set: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  6. SET: Three Letter Words with definitions
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. set: Idioms

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Set: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. set: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  6. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  7. -Set, set, set, set, set: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. set, set, set, set, set: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Set: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. set: The Folk File
  5. Set, the set: Urban Dictionary

Sports (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Set: Dan's Poker
  2. (to) set: Pinochle Glossary
  3. Set: Body Building
  4. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  6. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Set: Poker Terms
  8. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  9. set: Golfer's Dictionary
  10. Set: Sports Definitions

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  7. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  8. SET: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  9. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  10. set: Coin Collecting
  11. Set: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  12. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SET)

verb:  (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
verb:  (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
verb:  (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
verb:  (transitive) To start (a fire).
verb:  (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
verb:  (transitive) To determine or settle.
verb:  (transitive) To adjust.
verb:  (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
verb:  (transitive) To introduce or describe.
verb:  (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
verb:  (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
verb:  (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange (type).
verb:  (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
verb:  (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
verb:  (intransitive) To solidify.
verb:  (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
verb:  (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
verb:  (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
verb:  (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
verb:  (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
verb:  (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
verb:  (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
verb:  To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
verb:  (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
verb:  To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
verb:  To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
verb:  To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
verb:  (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
verb:  To place or fix in a setting.
verb:  To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
verb:  To extend and bring into position; to spread.
verb:  To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
verb:  To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
verb:  (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
verb:  (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
verb:  To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
verb:  (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
verb:  To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
verb:  (Scotland) To suit; to become.
verb:  To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
noun:  A punch for setting nails in wood.
noun:  A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
noun:  (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
noun:  The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
noun:  (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
noun:  A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
noun:  (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
noun:  (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
noun:  A young oyster when first attached.
noun:  Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
noun:  A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
noun:  (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
noun:  The pattern of a tartan, etc.
noun:  The camber of a curved roofing tile.
noun:  The full number of eggs set under a hen.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
adjective:  Fixed in position.
adjective:  Rigid, solidified.
adjective:  Ready, prepared.
adjective:  Intent, determined (to do something).
adjective:  Prearranged.
adjective:  Fixed in one’s opinion.
adjective:  (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
noun:  A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
noun:  A rudimentary fruit.
noun:  The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
noun:  (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
noun:  A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
noun:  A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
noun:  An object made up of several parts.
noun:  (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
noun:  (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
noun:  A group of people, usually meeting socially.
noun:  The scenery for a film or play.
noun:  the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
noun:  (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
noun:  (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
noun:  (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
noun:  (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
noun:  (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
noun:  (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
noun:  (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
noun:  (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
noun:  (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
verb:  (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
noun:  (Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
noun:  Gene for a human protein involved in apoptosis, transcription and nucleosome assembly.
noun:  Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”) [The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.]
noun:  Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”) [The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.]
noun:  Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”) [The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.]
noun:  Initialism of Simulated Emergency Test., an amateur radio training exercise.
noun:  Initialism of Strategic Energy Technologies. Plan of the European Union.
noun:  Initialism of Stock Exchange of Thailand., the national stock exchange of Thailand.

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