Set onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

set on (third-person singular simple present sets on, present participle setting on, simple past and past participle set on)

1. To attack.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.

2. To encourage someone, or an animal, to attack someone.

   I will set the dogs on you, if you don't leave right now!

3. To be determined to do or achieve something.

   I had my mind pretty well set on working for a small company.

   • 2020 June 17, Coconuts Bangkok, “Chula still set on demolishing historic shrine – once it evicts caretakers”, in coconuts.co‎, coconuts.co, retrieved 17 June 2020:

     Chula[longkorn University is] still set on demolishing historic shrine – once it evicts caretakers

同意語

• set upon

関連する語

• onset

参照

• “set on”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “set on”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, onset, steno, steno-, stone, tones

名詞

seton (plural setons)

1. (medicine, agriculture) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed.
   • 1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2:

     If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.

   • 1904, Gustave Flaubert, Over Strand and Field‎:

     The animal was lean and tall, and had a moth-eaten mane, rough hoofs and loose shoes; a seton bobbed up and down on its breast.

参照

アナグラム

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, Stone, notes, onest, onset, steno, steno-, stone, tones