unset
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unset (not comparable)
- Not set; not fixed or appointed.
- Not mounted or placed in a setting.
- Not set.
- an unset broken bone
- Not planted.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 16”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- And many maiden gardens, yet unset
With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers
- uncongealed, unconsolidated
- unset concrete; unset cement
Verb
[edit]unset (third-person singular simple present unsets, present participle unsetting, simple past and past participle unset)
- (transitive) To make not set.
- Synonym: clear
- to unset a single bit in a binary pattern
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[edit]unset
Welsh
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[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɨ̞nsɛt/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɪnsɛt/
Verb
[edit]unset
- alternative form of unet
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