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How to sign: put into a certain place or abstract location
"Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point";
See also: set back, array, lay out, postpone, prorogue, table, shelve, set back, defer, put off, put back, knock back, postpone, prorogue, table, shelve, array, defer, put off, imprison, incarcerate, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, assemble, put together, tack together, put up, communicate, put across, arrange, unload, knock back, rig, ensnare, entrap, disembark, debark, assemble, put together, tack together, lay out, erect, set up, land, lag, remit, set out, lay, put back, put over, set out, put back, put down, piece, piece, put over, remit, set up, remand, set back, put away, put up, frame, put down, set up, tack, set back, tack, bring down, apply, replace, repose, range, put down, set up, hold over, range, set down, rear, hold over, set down, set up, pass on, put on, discharge, drop, raise, post, set up, pass
Similiar / Same: put, place, lay, position, pose
Within this category: appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, docket, emplace, emplace, ensconce, glycerolize, ground, imbricate, insert, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay, lean, load, marshal, middle, misplace, misplace, nestle, parallelize, park, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, plant, plant, poise, position, postpose, prepose, rack up, recess, recline, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, set, settle, set down, set down, shelve, ship, sign, siphon, situate, sow, space, stand, step, stick, stratify, superimpose, superpose, tee, throw, throw, trench, underlay, upend
How to sign: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
"Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels";
Similiar / Same: adjust, correct
Categories: alter, change, modify
Within this category: align, attune, calibrate, citify, depressurize, focus, harmonize, justify, linearize, match, modulate, plumb, pressurize, proportion, readjust, regulate, set, synchronize, temper, time, time, trim, tune, tune, zero, zero
How to sign: a unit of play in tennis or squash
"they played two sets of tennis after dinner";
Categories: period of play, play, playing period
How to sign: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
"the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue";
Similiar / Same: solidifying, solidification, curing, hardening
Categories: action, activity, natural action, natural process
Within this category: congealment
