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set back
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set back
prevent, restrain
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Setback
Setback or Setbacks may have the following meanings:
- Setback (land use), the distance a structure must be from the edge of a lot
- Setback (architecture), making upper storeys of a high-rise building further back than the lower ones for aesthetic, structural, or land-use restriction reasons
- Pitch (card game), a card game related to All Fours
- A problem
- Setback arming, a safety-arming mechanism used on some munition fuzes
- Setbacks (album)
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set back
Verb
1. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
(synonym) postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, defer, remit, put off
(hypernym) delay
(hyponym) call
(entail) cancel, call off
2. slow down the progress of; hinder; "His late start set him back"
(hypernym) impede, hinder
(derivation) reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye
3. cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"
(synonym) knock back, put back
(hypernym) cost, be
set-back
Noun
1. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
(synonym) setoff, offset
(hypernym) structure, construction
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set back
opóźniać
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Set-Back
Setting a thermometer to a lower temperature when the building is unoccupied to reduce consumption of heating energy. Also refers to setting the thermometer to a higher temperature during unoccupied periods in the cooling season.
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