Definition of "set" []

• To put in a specified position; place: set a book on a table. (verb-transitive)
• To put into a specified state: set the prisoner at liberty. (verb-transitive)
• To put into a stable position: set the fence post into a bed of concrete. (verb-transitive)
• To fix firmly or in an immobile manner: He set his jaw and concentrated on flying the plane through the storm. (verb-transitive)
• To restore to a proper and normal state when dislocated or broken: set a broken arm. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If we remember that the extension of a concept is something like the set of objects that fall under the concept, then we could replace Frege's talk of ˜extensions™ by talk of ˜sets™ and use the following ˜set notation™ to refer to the set of objects that when added to 4 yield 5 and the set of objects that when added to 22 yield 5, respectively:"
• "According to naïve set theory, the functional expression ˜set of™ is indeed characterized by a putative abstraction principle."
• "In some parts of Bavaria such bushes are set up also at the houses of newly-married pairs, and the practice is only omitted if the wife is near her confinement; for in that case they say that the husband has “set up a May-bush for himself."