Hitch and Set

Hitch

Hitch verb - To put securely in place or in a desired position.
Usage example: hitched the trailer to the back of the car

Set and hitch are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a verb "Hitch".

Nearby Words: hitched, hitching

Set

Set verb - To put securely in place or in a desired position.
Usage example: had the jeweler set the diamond again

Hitch and set are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hitch" instead a verb "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

particular particular hitch particular set
certain certain hitch certain set
proper proper hitch proper set
single single hitch single set
Other adjectives: small, last.

Common collocations

people hitch people set people
way hitch way set way

Both words in one sentence

  • The Exit Is That Way In the movie of The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Zaphod has just set their course for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, only to have Marvin point out that the restaurant is at the other end of the universe.
  • In The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, the humans currently on earth were descended from telephone sanitary workers and hairdressers, set to crash into the Earth by the other people on their planet, who were later wiped out by a disease that occured due to contaminated telephones.
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