English-Dutch translations for setting

• context
  In deze context is het oprichten van Eurojust een gedurfd initiatief. In this context, setting up EUROJUST is a bold initiative.
• instelling
  De instelling van dit fonds is dan ook een stap in de goede richting. Setting up this fund is therefore a step in the right direction.
  De instelling van een enquêtecommissie is een zwaar politiek middel. Setting up a committee of inquiry is a weighty political instrument.
  Wat bij de oprichting van een vereniging of welke instelling dan ook van belang is, is haar doel. What counts when setting up an association or any kind of body is its object.

Definition of setting

• The time, place and circumstance in which something is set; context; scenario
• A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry
• The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does
• Something set in, or inserted
• A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music
• The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage
• that disappears below the horizon

Examples

• the setting of the sun
• the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
• the volume setting on a television
• Schuberts setting of Goethes poem
• Bachs setting of the Magnificat
• the setting sun

Related words

• besetting
• upsetting
• resetting
• offsetting
• typesetting
• phototypesetting
• presetting
• goalsetting
• setting-up