Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) set
Synonyymit
- (rakennus)set
Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /sɛt/
- Sett on sanan set vanhentunut kirjoitusmuoto.
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
- A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
- (mining) A mine or set of mines on lease.
- (mining) A collection of pumps in a mine.
Esimerkit
- Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts," kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.
- Three horses trotted abreast, with the clatter of hoofs on the granite setts, and the yellow, uproarious machine jolted violently behind them, [...]
- The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.
- This path, which consists of some 60,000 setts laid directly into the earth, is perhaps the single most noteworthy 'feature' of the design, lending the whole conception a feeling of unity and coherence, enhancing the sense that one has been absorbed into both the place and the journey through it.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | setts |