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SET FORTH
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
State
Example:
set forth one's reasons
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "set forth" is one way to...):
dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set forth"):
depict; describe; draw (give a description of)
premise (set forth beforehand, often as an explanation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Leave
Example:
The family took off for Florida
Synonyms:
depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "set forth" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set forth"):
lift off; take off (depart from the ground)
roar off (leave)
blaze; blaze out (move rapidly and as if blazing)
sally forth; sally out (set out in a sudden, energetic or violent manner)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The children set forth to the playground
Context examples:
My uncle had just set forth, as was his custom of an evening, clad in his green riding-frock, his plate buttons, his Cordovan boots, and his round hat, to show himself upon his crop-tailed tit in the Mall.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A document containing the determination of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) that the clinical study with human subject participation has been reviewed and may be conducted at a particular study site within the constraints set forth by the IRB and other institutional and federal requirements.
(Institutional Review Board Approval, NCI Thesaurus)
This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Thorpe herself, of her past adventures and sufferings, which might otherwise be expected to occupy the three or four following chapters; in which the worthlessness of lords and attorneys might be set forth, and conversations, which had passed twenty years before, be minutely repeated.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A federal form that is the statement of the investigator that he will abide by the federal guidelines set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations for the use of drugs in an investigational setting.
(Form FDA 1572, NCI Thesaurus)
And to set forth the valour of my own dear countrymen, I assured him, that I had seen them blow up a hundred enemies at once in a siege, and as many in a ship, and beheld the dead bodies drop down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Nay, it may not be. I have other work to do. I have tarried with you over long,” quoth Alleyne, and resolutely set forth upon his journey once more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are no further particulars, and the whole case is in your hands now—so far as it has been set forth in the public press.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then we distributed the various burdens among us—guns, ammunition, food, a tent, blankets, and the rest—and, shouldering our packages, we set forth upon the more laborious stage of our journey.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
