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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: jug, debark, array, knock back, incarcerate, ensnare, put off, put together, table, gaol, communicate, lay out, entrap, put off, knock back, tack together, table, shelve, assemble, postpone, immure, put up, arrange, shelve, set back, postpone, prorogue, put behind bars, array, put back, tack together, rig, erect, set back, defer, assemble, put across, unload, put together, prorogue, jail, lay out, disembark, imprison, defer, set up, put over, set out, remit, put over, put back, lag, land, set up, set out, put back, remand, piece, lay, put down, remit, piece, set up, set back, tack, put up, put away, frame, put down, tack, set back, apply, replace, bring down, hold over, repose, set down, range, put down, set up, hold over, range, rear, set down, pass on, set up, 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: an unofficial association of people or groups
"the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot";
Similiar / Same: band, circle, lot
Categories: social group
Within this category: car pool, clique, cohort, conspiracy, Four Hundred, horsy set, jet set, party
How to sign: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
"Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill";
Similiar / Same: prepare, gear up, ready, fix, set up
Categories: alter, change, modify
Within this category: brace, cram, cultivate, fix, mount, precondition, prime, provide, set up, socialize, summerize, winterize
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
