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Setter vs Fetter - What's the difference?

setter | fetter |

As nouns the difference between setter and fetter

is that setter is one who sets something, especially a typesetter while fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .

As verbs the difference between setter and fetter

is that setter is (uk|dialect|transitive) to cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue while fetter is to shackle or bind up with fetters.

setter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who sets something, especially a typesetter
    • The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
    Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
  • A long-haired breed of gundog ().
    • She has a spaniel and a red setter .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}
  • (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting]], or [[pass, passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
  • (computing, programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
  • (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 29 , author=Kevin Mitchell , title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses. }}
  • One who hunts victims for sharpers.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • One who adapts words to music in composition.
  • A shallow seggar for porcelain.
    • (Ure)
    Derived terms
    * English setter * Gordon setter * Irish red and white setter * Irish setter * red setter
    Synonyms
    * (computing) mutator
    See also
    * getter
    References
    * OED2

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    fetter

    English

    (wikipedia fetter)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .
  • (figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1675 , author=John Dryden , title=Aureng-zebe , section=Prologue citation , passage=Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious' ' fetter ; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1910 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Erwin Rosen , title=In the Foreign Legion , chapter=Prolog citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters , and I fought a hard fight for a new career … }}

    Synonyms

    (chains on legs) * leg irons

    Hyponyms

    (chain binding generally) * handcuff, handcuffs * leg irons * manacle, manacles * shackle, shackles

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shackle or bind up with fetters
  • To restrain or impede; to hamper.

    • Derived terms

    * unfetter

    Hyponyms

    * handcuff * manacle * shackle