English-French translations for setting

• chaton
• configuration
  Peut-être la table ronde du 28 septembre, organisée par la Commission, en liaison avec l'OMS et l'ONU-sida pourrait-elle en être la première étape de configuration ? Perhaps the round table of 28 September, organised by the Commission, in liaison with WHO and UNAIDS could be the first stage in setting that up?
• couchant
• coucher
• couvert
• donnée
• mise
  La mise en place d'installations de biogaz reste cependant coûteuse. Setting up biogas plants is costly, however.
• monture
• paramètre
  Il incombera dès lors aux États membres de fixer les paramètres. It will therefore be up to the Member States to carry the responsibility for setting the parameters.
  Il fournit toutefois les paramètres de mes activités en définissant les droits des États membres. It does, however, provide the parameters for my activities, setting down the rights of the Member States.
• réglage

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