setter
pronunciation
How to pronounce setter in British English:
UK [ˈsetə(r)]
How to pronounce setter in American English:
US [ˈsɛtɚ]
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- Noun:
- one who sets written material into type
- a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
Word Origin
- setter (n.)
- "one who sets (something)," c. 1400, agent noun from set (v.). As a type of hunting-dog (originally a type of spaniel), 1570s, so called because the dog is "set" on game.
Example
- 1. Be a goal setter and a achiever .
- 2. Training the irish setter is not always easy .
- 3. Mr taylor set off that morning , with his red setter lara , to check the woods on dechmont law for stray sheep and cattle .
- 4. The early irish setters were all red and white due to their ancestry involving the english setter .
- 5. Finally , you define a getter method that returns the current counter value to the user and a setter method that sets the current counter value with one provided by the caller .