Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Word
Word verb - To convey in appropriate or telling terms.
How words are described
| old | old set | old word |
| good | good set | good word |
| nice | nice set | nice word |
| long | long set | long word |
| Other adjectives: exact, particular, better, similar, common, specific, right, certain, original, single, simple, actual, wrong, new, final, random, next, last, different. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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That Wacky Redhead never refers to "the V-word" explicitly, as part of an in-joke about how that topic tends to dominate American-penned Alternate History timelines set in this period.
Source: T-Word Euphemism -
Magic A Is Magic A: You can set your letter-remover to any letter, but it won't work if removing all instances of that letter from the word you wave it at doesn't yield a dictionary word.
Source: Video Game / Counterfeit Monkey -
Apparently "zombies" isn't proper, though they sometimes use the word anyway— although the novel is set before the word "zombie" was known in English.
Source: Not Using the "Z" Word
Cite this Source
Word and Set. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/set/word
Set & Word. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/set/word>.
Word or Set. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/set/word.
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