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:

    The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder....
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship—a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
    Anthony Storr (b. 1920)

    One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)