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Narrator: Today's word is "Set" — noun, pronounced /set/, with the stress on "set".
Narrator: A set is a group of similar things that belong together.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a collection, or to put something in place.
Narrator: It comes from Old English settan, to cause to sit.
Narrator: A common collocation is "a set of keys", which describes several keys together.
Narrator: It differs from "group", because a set often has a fixed, complete membership.
Narrator: In a second sense, a film set is where scenes are shot, and in tennis a set is part of a match.
Narrator: Maths, film, sport and daily life all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: set means group, or put in place.
Speaker A: How many meanings does "set" have?
Speaker B: Hundreds! SET comes from Old English settan.
Speaker A: Really that many?
Speaker B: One of the longest dictionary entries.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "A chess set", games. "Set the table", home. "She won the first set", tennis.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: The past tense is also "set", not "setted".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Group is its cousin, collection its twin, and place an alternative for the verb — yet set keeps its versatile charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "set" in AI prompts — useful for data structures and scheduling.
Speaker A: How for code?
Speaker B: Remove duplicates.
Prompt: Use a JavaScript Set to remove duplicate emails from this list.
Speaker A: And scheduling?
Speaker B: Alarms.
Prompt: Set a daily reminder at eight to take medication.
Speaker A: Could it help maths?
Speaker B: Yes, for teaching.
Prompt: Explain union and intersection of sets with Venn diagrams.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Film.
Prompt: Describe a film set for a Victorian street scene.
Set — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary