Set-to

Definition

set /set/ v ( -tt- ; pt, pp set ) ● Placing in position တည္ျခင္း။ တည္ရိွျခင္း။ ၁။ တည္ခင္းသည္။ တည္ရိွသည္။ She set a tray down on the table. ❍ They ate everything that was set before them. ❍ The house is set (ie situated) in fifty acres of beautiful parkland. ❍ She set a tray (down) on the table. ❍ Her eyes are set very close together. ၂။ ~ sth to sth ( fml ) တို႔သည္။ set pen to paper (ie begin to write). ၃။ (usu passive) (ဝတၳဳ၊ ျပဇာတ္ စသည္ ဇာတ္အိမ္) တည္သည္။ The novel is set in pre-war London. ● Causing to be in a particular state or to happen ျဖစ္ေစျခင္း။ ဖန္တီးျခင္း။ ၄။ …ေပးသည္၊ လိုက္သည္။ The revolution set the country on the road to democracy. ❍ The firm's accounts need to be set in order. ကုမၸဏီ၏ စာရင္းမ်ားကို ေသခ်ာက်နေအာင္ ျပဳစုေရးဆြဲ ေပးဖို႔လိုသည္။ ❍ Her manner immediately set everyone at their ease. ❍ She pulled the lever and set the machine in motion. ❍ The crowd watched as he set the bonfire alight. သူ မီးပံုပြဲ ထြန္းညိႇဖြင့္လွစ္ ေပးလိုက္သည္ကို ပရိသတ္က ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ ေနၾကသည္။ ❍ The hijackers set the hostages free (ie released them). ၅။ (က) စ…ေစသည္။ ေပးလိုက္သည္။ set a pendulum swinging ခ်ိန္သီးကို စလႊဲ ေစသည္။ ❍ music to set your feet tapping ေျခဖ်ားတရြရြေခါက္၍ စကေစေသာ ေတးသံ။ ❍ Her remarks set me thinking. သူ႕အေျပာေၾကာင့္ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္အတြက္ စဥ္းစားစရာ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ (ခ) ျပ႒ာန္းသည္။ ခ်မွတ္သည္။ I've set myself to finish the job by the end of the month. ● Adjusting or arranging ညိႇျခင္း၊ စီစဥ္ျခင္း။ ၆။ ခ်ိန္သည္။ ဆင္သည္။ set the controls of a machine ❍ set a trap ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ေထာင္သည္။ ❍ She set the camera on automatic. ❍ I usually set my watch by (ie adjust it so that it shows the same time as) the clock in the town square. ❍ She set the alarm for 7 o'clock (ie adjusted it so that it would ring then). ၇။ (ထမင္းစားပြဲ)ျပင္သည္။ Could you set the table for dinner? ❍ The table is set for six guests. ၈။ ~ A in B/ ~ B with A (usu passive) (ေက်ာက္မ်က္) စီသည္။ စီျခယ္သည္။ စီနစ္သည္။ She had the sapphire set in a gold ring. ❍ Her bracelet was set with emeralds. ၉။ သတ္မွတ္သည္။ ခ်မွတ္သည္။ စီစဥ္သည္။ They haven't set a date for their wedding yet. ❍ The government plans to set strict limits on public spending this year. ● Creating ဖန္တီးျခင္း။ ၁၀။ စံတင္သည္။ set a new fashion ဖက္ရွင္သစ္ထြင္သည္။ ❍ set high safety standards ❍ Imposing a lenient sentence for such a serious crime sets a dangerous precedent. ဒီေလာက္ႀကီးေလးတဲ့ ျပစ္မႈအတြက္ ေလွ်ာ့ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပါ့ စီရင္ခ်က္ဟာ ေၾကာက္စရာ အစဥ္အလာ စံတစ္ရပ္ ျဖစ္ေစတယ္။ ❍ She set a new world record for the high jump. သူအျမင့္ခုန္မွာ ကမ႓ာ့စံခ်ိန္သစ္ တင္သည္။ ❍ I rely on you to set a good example. သူမ်ား အတုယူႏိုင္ေအာင္ စံနမူနာျပျဖစ္ေစခ်င္တယ္။ ၁။ ~ sth (for oneself/sb) သတ္မွတ္သည္။ ေရးဆြဲသည္။ Who will be setting (ie writing the questions in) the French exam? ❍ What books have been set (ie are to be studied) for A level English? ❍ She's set herself a difficult task/ set a difficult task for herself. ❍ We must set ourselves precise sales targets for the coming year. ● Making or becoming firm or fixed မာေစ၊ ၿမဲေစျခင္း။ ၁၂။ ခဲသည္။ မာသည္။ Some kinds of concrete set more quickly than others. ❍ Put the jelly in the fridge to set. ❍ The glue had set hard. ၁၃။ (esp passive) (မ်က္ႏွာထား စသည္) တင္းသည္။ Her jaw was set in a determined manner. ၁၄။ (ဆံပင္)ပံုသြင္းသည္။ She had her hair washed and set. ၁၅။ (က) (က်ဳိးေနေသာအ႐ိုး) ျပန္ဆက္ေပးသည္။ The surgeon set her broken arm. (ခ) (က်ဳိးေနေသာ အ႐ိုး)ျပန္ဆက္သြားသည္။ ● Presenting in the right form စီစဥ္ျခင္း။ ၁၆။ ( techn ) (ပံုႏိွပ္ရန္)စာစီသည္။ Books were previously set by hand but much of the work is now done by computer. ၁၇။ ~ sth (to sth) ေတးသြားေဖာ္သည္။ သံစဥ္ေရးဖြဲ႕သည္။ Schubert set many of Goethe's poems (to music). See also TYPESETTER ● Moving or flowing ေရြ႕လ်ားျခင္း။ ၁၈။ (ေန၊ လ) ဝင္သည္။ In northern countries the sun sets much later in summer than in winter. ❍ We sat and watched the sun setting. Compare RISE ၁၃(က), SUNSET n ၁။ [C] (က) ~ (of sth) အစံု။ …စံု။ a set of cutlery/ golf clubs ❍ a set of six dining chairs ❍ a complete set of Dickens novels ❍ a set of false teeth ❍ a set of instructions ❍ a new set of rules to learn ❍ You can borrow my keys — I've got a spare set. (ခ) အစံု။ a chess set. ၂။ [C] (ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား)ဖမ္းစက္။ Do not adjust your (TV) set. ၃။ [C] (က) (ျပဇာတ္၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ စသည္) အခင္း အက်င္း၊ ႐ႈခင္း။ a set designer ❍ We need volunteers to help build and paint the set. (ခ) ဇာတ္စင္။ ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ိုက္ကြင္း။ The cast must all be on (the) set by 7 pm. ၄။ [CGp] ( sometimes derog ) လူစု။ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္း။ Oxford's literary set ❍ the smart set (ie rich, fashionable people). See also THE JET SET ၅။ [sing] ~ (of sth) (ကိုယ္လက္အဂၤါ အစိတ္အပိုင္းတစ္ရပ္) တည္ေနပံု။ She admired the firm set of his jaw. သူ၏ပါး႐ိုး တိတိရိရိ ျပတ္ျပတ္ သားသား က်ေနပံုကို မိန္းကေလးက သေဘာ က်သည္။ ၆။ [C] (တင္းနစ္ပြဲစဥ္) ပြဲငယ္ ေျခာက္ပြဲ (သို႔) အထက္ ကစားရေသာ ပြဲ။ a five-set match ❍ She won the first set easily. ၇။ [C] ( mathematics ) အစု။ ၈။ [C] ဂီတေျဖေဖ်ာ္ပြဲ တစ္ပြဲ အတြက္ စီစဥ္ထားေသာ ေတးသီခ်င္းအစု။ We're playing the final set. ၉။ [C] ( esp Brit ) အရည္တူ ေက်ာင္းသူ၊ ေက်ာင္းသား အလႊာ။ She's in the top biology set. ၁၀။ (also sett ) [C] ေခြးတူဝက္တူ ေအာင္းရာ တြင္း။ ၁၁။ [C] ဆံပင္ပံုသြင္းျခင္း။ A shampoo and set costs £15. ၁၂။ [C] ပင္ေပါက္။ ပ်ဳိးပင္။ onion sets. adj ၁။ သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ။ Hotel meals are at set times. ❍ There is a set procedure for making formal complaints. ❍ Are there set hours of work in your company? ၂။ မေျပာင္းလဲေသာ။ အ႐ိုးစြဲေနေသာ။ She has very set ideas on bringing up children. ❍ As people get older they become more set in their ways. ၃။ ေဈးႏႈန္းႏွင့္ဟင္း အမည္ ပံုေသ(ေန႔လယ္စာ၊ တစ္နပ္စာ)။ a set lunch/menu. ၄။ (မ်က္ႏွာအမူအရာ) အသက္မပါေသာ။ လုပ္ထားေသာ။ a set smile ❍ Her face took on a grim, set expression. ၅။ ~ (for sth/ to do sth) အသင့္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ We're all set to go. ❍ Prices look set to rise again this month. ေဈးႏႈန္းေတြ ဒီလ ျပန္တက္ဖို႔ တာစူေနပံုပဲ။ ❍ The Social Democrats look set for victory in the general election. ၆။ ျပ႒ာန္း(စာ)။ ❏ be (dead) set against sth/ doing sth [ IDM ] ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ဆန္႔က်င္သည္။ အေက်ာက္အကန္ ျငင္းသည္။ She's dead set against (the idea of) having children. ❏ be set on sth/ doing sth [ IDM ] ဆံုးျဖတ္ထားသည္။ ပိုင္းျဖတ္ထားသည္။ She's set on a career in acting. ❍ He was set on winning the championship. ❏ set about sb [ PHRV ] ( dated infml ) ႐ိုက္သည္။ ႏွက္ သည္။ He set about the intruders with a stick. ❏ set about sth/ doing sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) စတင္သည္။ အစီအစဥ္စခ်သည္။ She set about the business of tidying her desk. ❍ The new government must set about finding solutions to the country's economic problems. ❏ set sb against sb [ PHRV ] (no passive) ရန္တိုက္ေပး သည္။ The civil war set brother against brother. ❍ She accused her husband of setting their children against her. ❏ set sth (off) against sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႏိႈင္းဆသည္။ ခ်ိန္ ထိုးသည္။ The initial cost of a new car has to be set against the saving you'll make on repairs. ❍ Set against the enormous benefits of the new technology, there is also a strong possibility that jobs will be lost. ၂။ ( finance ) (စာရင္းျပရာတြင္)ေထသည္။ set capital costs (off) against tax. ❏ set sb/ sth apart (from sb/ sth) [ PHRV ] ကြာျခားေစ သည္။ သာေစသည္။ Her clear and elegant prose sets her apart from most other journalists. ❏ set sth apart (for sth) [ PHRV ] (usu passive) သီးသန္႔ ထားသည္။ ဖယ္ထားသည္။ One day a week was traditionally set apart for prayers and meditation. ❍ Two rooms were set apart for use as libraries. ❏ set sth aside [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဘးဖယ္ထားသည္။ Fry the onion for five minutes and then set it aside while you cook the fish. ၂။ (ေငြ)စုသည္။ (အခ်ိန္)ေပးသည္။ She sets aside a bit of money every month. ❍ I try to set aside a few minutes each day to do some exercises. ၃။ (ခဏ) ေဘးခ်ိတ္ထားသည္၊ ဖယ္ထားသည္။ Let's set aside my personal feelings for a moment. ၄။ ( law ) (ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္၊ စီရင္ခ်က္) ပယ္သည္၊ ပယ္ဖ်က္သည္။ The verdict was set aside by the Appeal Court. ❏ set-aside n [U] ( techn ) စိုက္ပ်ဳိးေျမ ပလပ္ထားရန္ ေထာက္ပံ့သည့္ စနစ္။ ယင္းသို႔ ပလပ္ထားသည့္ ေျမ။ ❏ set sth/ sb back (sth) [ PHRV ] ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးေစသည္။ ၾကန္႔ၾကာေစသည္။ The bad weather has set them back/ set back their building programme several weeks. ❏ set sb back sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (ေငြ)ကုန္က်ေစသည္။ The repairs could set you back over £200. ❏ set sth back (from sth) [ PHRV ] (often passive) (အေဆာက္အအံု) ခြာထားသည္။ The house is set well back from the road. ❏ set-back n အေႏွာင့္အယွက္။ ဆုတ္ဆိုင္းမႈ။ Hopes of an early end to the strike received/ suffered a severe set-back yesterday. ❍ Defeat in the by-election is a major set-back for the ruling party. ❏ set book (also set text ) n ( Brit ) ျပ႒ာန္းစာ။ What are your set books for English A level? ❏ set sb down [ PHRV ] (ကား၊ ရထား) (ခရီးသည္စသည္) ခ်ေပးသည္။ Passengers may be set down and picked up only at the official stops. ❏ set sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေရးမွတ္သည္။ တို႔သည္။ Why don't you set your ideas down on paper? ၂။ ျပ႒ာန္းသည္။ ခ်မွတ္သည္။ achieve the standards set down by the governing body. ❏ set forth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ခရီးစတင္သည္။ ❏ set sth forth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာသည္။ ေၾကညာသည္။ The Minister has set forth his views in a television broadcast. ❏ set in [ PHRV ] (မိုး၊ ရာသီ၊ ပိုး စသည္) ဝင္သည္၊ က်သည္။ I must get those bulbs planted before the cold weather sets in. ❍ Those beams will need to be replaced; it looks as though woodworm has set in. ဟိုထုပ္တန္းေတြကို အသစ္လဲရလိမ့္မယ္၊ ပိုးထိုးတဲ့ပံုေပၚတယ္။ ❏ set sth in/ into sth [ PHRV ] (usu passive) စီနစ္သည္။ ျမႇဳပ္ထားသည္။ a plaque set into the wall. ❏ set off [ PHRV ] ခရီးစတင္သည္၊ စထြက္သည္။ What time are you planning to set off tomorrow? ❍ They've set off on a trip round the world. ❍ We set off for London just after 10 o'clock. ❏ set sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဖာက္သည္။ လႊတ္သည္။ A gang of boys were setting off fireworks in the street. ၂။ (ေခါင္းေလာင္း၊ ဥဩ စသည္) ျမည္သည္။ If you open this door, it will set off the alarm. ၃။ အစပ်ဳိးေပးလိုက္သည္။ Panic on the stock market set off a wave of selling. ၄။ လိုက္ဖက္သည္။ That jumper sets off the blue of her eyes. ❏ set sb off (doing sth) [ PHRV ] စ… ေစသည္။ She's very sensitive— the slightest thing can set her off (crying). ❏ set on/ upon sb [ PHRV ] ႐ုတ္တရက္(ကိုက္၊ ဆြဲ ၊ ႐ိုက္ ပုတ္ျခင္း)ခံရသည္။ I opened the gate, and was immediately set upon by a large dog. ❏ set sb/ sth on sb [ PHRV ] ႐ႉးတိုက္သည္။ The farmer threatened to set his dogs on us. ❏ set out [ PHRV ] ခရီးစထြက္သည္။ စတင္ထြက္ခြာသည္။ We set out at dawn. ❍ They set out on the last stage of their journey. ❏ set sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခင္းက်င္းသည္။ စီစဥ္ ထားသည္။ We'll need to set out some chairs for the meeting. ❍ Her work is always very well set out. ၂။ စီစဥ္တင္ျပသည္။ He set out his objections to the scheme. ❍ She set out the reasons for her resignation in a long letter. ❍ You haven't set out your ideas very clearly in this essay. ❏ set out to do sth [ PHRV ] ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ထားသည္။ She set out to break the world land speed record. ❍ They succeeded in what they set out to do. ❏ set piece n (က) (ဝတၳဳ၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ျပဇာတ္တို႔တြင္) စံက် လက္ရာမြန္။ The play contains a number of typical Stoppard set pieces. (ခ) (တိုက္ပြဲ၊ ေဘာလံုးပြဲ စသည္တြင္) ပံုစံက် တိုက္ကြက္။ ❏ set to [ PHRV ] ( dated infml ) အားႀကိဳးမာန္တက္ လုပ္သည္။ The engineers set to on repair work to the bridge. ❍ If we all set to we can finish the cleaning by lunchtime. ❏ set-to n ( pl set-tos ) ( infml ) စကားမ်ားျခင္း။ ရန္ျဖစ္ ျခင္း။ They had a bit of a set-to. ❏ set sb up [ PHRV ] ၁။ မတည္ေပးသည္။ ထူေထာင္ေပး သည္။ A bank loan helped to set him up in business. ❍ Winning all that money in the lottery set her up for life. ၂။ ( infml ) အားျပန္ျပည့္ေစသည္။ တက္ႂကြေစသည္။ The break from work really set me up. ၃။ ( infml ) ေထာင္ဖမ္း သည္။ He denied the charges, saying the police had set him up. ❏ set sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ စိုက္ထူသည္။ ခ်ထားသည္။ set up a monument/ statue ❍ The police set up roadblocks on routes leading out of the city. ၂။ ဆင္သည္။ ထားသည္။ She set up her stereo in the living-room. ၃။ စီစဥ္သည္။ set up an experiment/ a meeting. ၄။ တည္ေထာင္သည္။ ဖြဲ႕စည္းသည္။ set up (a) business ❍ The company has set up several new branches in Scotland. ❍ A government committee has been set up to look into the problems of drug abuse. ❍ A fund will be set up for the dead men's families. ၅။ ျဖစ္ပြားေစသည္။ အစပ်ဳိးလိုက္သည္။ The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world. ၆။ (ေအာ္)ျမည္သည္။ set up a wailing sound. ❏ set (oneself) up (as sb) [ PHRV ] (လုပ္ငန္းတစ္စံုတစ္ရာ) တည္ေထာင္သည္၊ လုပ္သည္။ She took out a bank loan and set up on her own. ❍ After leaving college, he set (himself) up as a freelance photographer. ❏ set oneself up as sb [ PHRV ] ဂိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ ပံုဖမ္းသည္။ He sets himself up as a bit of an intellectual. ❏ set-up n (usu sing ) ( infml ) (က) ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံု။ What's the set-up (like) in your company? ❍ I've only been here for a couple of weeks and don't really know the set-up. (ခ) ေထာင္ဖမ္းျခင္း။ She said it was a set-up and the drugs weren't hers.

Examples

1. [set someone/something in/into/on/down/back etc] : ‘Tea’s ready
2. ’ he told them and set down the tray.
3. She set the baby on the floor to play.
4. It’s a traditional country house hotel
5. set in its own parklands.
6. The bookcase was set into the wall.
7. Our house is set back from the road.
8. The suspect has been accused of setting the restaurant on fire.
9. [set someone/something loose] : Don’t set the dog loose.
10. [set someone/something free] : The hostages have been set free after 34 days in captivity.
11. [set someone/something doing something] : His mysterious phone calls were bound to set them wondering.
12. [set something in motion] : That single photograph set his career as a photographer in motion.
13. The bomb was set to go off at eight o’clock.
14. You can set it so that it does an automatic data backup at the end of each day.
15. Can you help me set the VCR?
16. [set something at something] : Set the thermostat at 68 degrees.
17. [set something for something] : I’m setting the alarm for 6.30.
18. [set a date/time (for something)] : Have they set a date for the wedding?
19. They set the price of the house too high.
20. The central bank is responsible for setting interest rates.
21. Parents shouldn’t set too high a value on good exam results.
22. Bail was set at £50
23. 000.
24. The agreement sets clear targets and timetables for the reduction of carbon emissions.
25. [set rules/conditions/guidelines/limits/criteria (for something)] : Opposition parties have set conditions for peace negotiations to begin.
26. [set standards] : Their teacher sets high standards and expects everyone to meet them.
27. [set a tone/pattern/fashion/trend (for something)] : Her opening remarks set the tone for the whole conference.
28. It was one of the shows that set the trend for ‘reality television’.
29. [set someone a goal/challenge/objective/task] : You’ll never get anywhere if you don’t set yourself any goals.
30. [set someone to do something] : I’ve set myself to find a new job by Christmas.
31. [set someone something] : I’m going to set you all an essay for the weekend.
32. They set us an absolutely impossible paper.
33. The film is set in 18th-century New England.
34. The doctor set my arm and put a cast on it.
35. A type of concrete that sets in 15 minutes
36. His face set into a determined expression as he read the letter.
37. A necklace set with rubies