setter

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛt.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈset.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛt.ɚ/, /-ɾɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtə, -ɛtə(r)
• Hyphenation: set‧ter

set +‎ -t- +‎ -er.

setter (plural setters)

1. One who sets something, especially a typesetter.

   The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.

   Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.

2. A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).

   She has a spaniel and a red setter.

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims‎:

     The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.

3. (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
4. (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
5. (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
   • 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 15 November 2016:

     It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked [Julien] Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in [Roger] Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses.

6. One who hunts victims for sharpers.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

7. One who adapts words to music in composition.
8. A shallow seggar for porcelain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)

• (computing): mutator

• getter

• “setter” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)

1. (Britain, dialectal, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

• Street, Tester, Teters, retest, street, tester

Borrowed from English setter.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.tɛʁ/

setter m (plural setters)

1. setter (dog)

• “setter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

setter m (invariable)

1. setter (dog)

setter

1. present of sette