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Set out   /sɛt aʊt/   Listen
Set out

verb
1.
Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.  Synonyms: begin, commence, get, get down, set about, start, start out.  "Who will start?" , "Get working as soon as the sun rises!" , "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia" , "He began early in the day" , "Let's get down to work now"
2.
Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.  Synonyms: array, lay out, range.  "Lay out the arguments"
3.
Leave.  Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set off, start, start out, take off.






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"Set out" Quotes from Famous Books



... by two servants carrying lanterns. A wide cloak enveloped his tall figure; he too stood on the threshold of old age and was no stranger to Wilhelm, for the Catholic Monseigneur Gloria, who often came to Leyden from Haarlem, was a patron of the noble art of music, and when the young man set out on his journey to Italy had provided him, spite of his heretical faith, with ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... minutes to produce Ahmed and the two men. The latter were six-foot, solemn veterans armed with rifles and long knives. With them at my heels I set out ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... thinks it was a dream from beginning to end,"—and Alwyn smiled a little,—"He believes that I set out on my journey with my brain already heated to an imaginative excess, and that the whole thing, even my Angel's presence, was a pure delusion of my own overwrought fancy,—a curious and wonderful delusion, ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... to find that it was broad daylight, and the horses had been run in, caught, and saddled, all ready for a start to the run. Breakfast was soon disposed of, and the cavalcade set out. Naturally, the old man had heaps of questions to ask about his inheritance, and made the Englishman ride alongside while he ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... floor of the church was thus decorated the effect must have been extremely rich. On the exterior the apse shows seven sides, decorated with shallow blind niches. Like the church it is very irregularly set out. ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen


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