SET FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does set forth mean? 

• SET FORTH (verb)
  The verb SET FORTH has 2 senses:

1. state

2. leave

  Familiarity information: SET FORTH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET FORTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exposit; expound; set forth

Context example:

set forth one's reasons

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off

Context example:

The family took off for Florida

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 

Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is headed, ‘Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding’.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now I pray you to read what is set forth within.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Both were to be carried along with us for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on parameters set forth by the approver.

(Limitation of Use Based on Conditional Approval, NCI Thesaurus)

Our only clue lay in the truncated telegram, and with a copy of this in his hand Holmes set forth to find a second link for his chain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt myself quite a proctor when I read this document aloud with all possible ceremony, and set forth its provisions, any number of times, to those whom they concerned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A restriction on the use of a device, medicine or treatment based on time limit parameters set forth by the approver.

(Limitation of Use Based on Duration of Use, NCI Thesaurus)

The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In a dense phalanx, blocking the streets from side to side, the crowd set forth, taking the route of Regent Street, Pall Mall, St. James's Street, and Piccadilly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, I doubt not that in old time, when such things were, many a man who set forth to do such a task as mine, found at the last his heart fail him, and then his nerve.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)