set out

set out
verb
1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action (Freq. 9)
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We began working at dawn

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Who will start?

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Get working as soon as the sun rises!

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The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia

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He began early in the day

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Let's get down to work now

• Syn:
↑get down, ↑begin, ↑get, ↑start out, ↑start, ↑set about, ↑commence
• Ant: ↑end (for: ↑begin)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑commencement (for: ↑commence), ↑start (for: ↑start), ↑starter (for: ↑start), ↑beginner (for: ↑begin), ↑beginning (for: ↑begin)
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Group: ↑begin
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s to INFINITIVE

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Somebody ——s VERB-ing

2. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line (Freq. 5)
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lay out the clothes

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lay out the arguments

• Syn: ↑range, ↑array, ↑lay out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑array (for: ↑array)
• Hypernyms: ↑arrange, ↑set up
• Hyponyms: ↑compart
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s something PP

3. leave (Freq. 3)
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The family took off for Florida

• Syn:
↑depart, ↑part, ↑start, ↑start out, ↑set forth, ↑set off, ↑take off
• See Also: ↑part with (for: ↑part)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑takeoff (for: ↑take off), ↑parting (for: ↑part), ↑departure (for: ↑depart), ↑departer (for: ↑depart)
• Hypernyms: ↑leave, ↑go forth, ↑go away
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s PP

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The children set out to the playground


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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