Setting

Setting may refer to:

  • A location (geography) where something is set
  • Set construction in theatrical scenery
  • Setting (narrative), the place and time in a work of narrative, especially fiction
  • Setting up to fail a manipulative technique to engineer failure
  • Stonesetting, in jewelry, when a diamond or gem is set into a frame or bed
  • Campaign setting in role playing games
  • In computers and electronics, the Computer configuration or options of the software or device
  • Typesetting
  • Set and setting, the context for psychedelic drug experiences
  • Setting (knot), the tightening of a knot

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Famous quotes containing the word setting:

    Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his “comb” and “spare shirt,” “leathern breeches” and “gauze cap to keep off gnats,” with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for this very originality of style, and that posterity will have reason to thank him for emancipating the language, in some measure, from the fetters which a merely conservative, aimless, and pedantic literary class had imposed upon it, and setting an example of greater freedom and naturalness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The trees stand in the setting sun,
    I in their freckled shade
    Regard the cavalcade of sin,
    Remorse for foolish action done,
    That pass like ghosts regardless, in
    A human image made....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)