Setting and Turning

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Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Turning and setting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Turning" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

Turning noun - A movement in a new direction.

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Setting and turning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Turning".

Nearby Words: turn, turned, turner, turnery

high	high setting	high turning
full	full setting	full turning
low	low setting	low turning
specific	specific setting	specific turning
Other adjectives: public, complete, original, actual, serious, main, social, interesting, major, possible, realistic.

The novel only has a few similarities with the movie, such as the New Orleans setting, voodoo as a plot device and the heroine turning into a frog as well after kissing the prince.

Source: Adaptation Displacement
Regardless, The Burning Crusade marked a turning point from what had become a High Fantasy, into a setting where anything goes and nothing raises an eyebrow anymore.

Source: Early Installment Weirdness / Video Games
In Absolution Gap, he uses as a sort of avatar a 21st-century mechanical spacesuit, and kills invaders of himself by turning walls into spikes, and setting up similar traps.

Source: The Captain

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