The meaning of set is to cause to sit : How to use set in a sentence. A set is a group of things that belong together, like the set of even numbers (2,4,6.) or the bed, nightstands, and dresser that make up your bedroom set.
Set a book on a table; Set the photo next to the flowers. Set the prisoner at liberty;
If you set something somewhere, you put it there, especially in a careful or deliberate way. He took the case out of her hand and set it on the floor. A set is a collection of things, usually numbers.
We can list each element (or member) of a set inside curly brackets like this The sergeant set the recruit to sweeping the barracks. Set is chiefly transitive and takes an object:
Set the dish on the shelf. Its past tense and past participle are also set : Yesterday he set three posts for the fence.
Its past tense and past participle are also set: To put (something) into the surface of something often used as (be) set