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  • 111set — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. place, put, station; arrange, prepare; establish; mount; adjust, regulate; fix, assign, appoint; plant, set out; overthrow, unsettle; sink, go down; solidify, jell, harden; start out. See location,… …

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  • 112in situ — Latin, lit. in its (original) place or position (see SITUATE (Cf. situate)) …

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  • 113situation — late 15c., place, position, or location, from M.L. situationem (nom. situatio), from L.L. situatus, pp. of situare (see SITUATE (Cf. situate)). Meaning state of affairs is from 1750; meaning employment post is from 1803. Situation ethics first… …

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  • 114set — [adj1] decided agreed, appointed, arranged, bent, certain, concluded, confirmed, customary, dead set on*, decisive, definite, determined, entrenched, established, firm, fixed, hanging tough*, immovable, intent, inveterate, ironclad, locked in*,… …

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  • 115-ate — [From the L. suffix atus, the past participle ending of verbs of the 1st conj.] 1. As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated. [1913 Webster] 2. As the ending of a… …

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  • 116Site — Site, n. [L. situs, fr. sinere, situm, to let, p. p. situs placed, lying, situate: cf. F. site. Cf. {Position}.] 1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. A… …

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  • 117Upsend — Up*send , v. t. To send, cast, or throw up. [1913 Webster] As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 118hang one's hat — phrasal 1. to situate oneself in (as a residence or place of employment) 2. to have or use as a source of support < need a career to hang my hat on > …

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  • 119Beetle — Beetles redirects here. For the band, see The Beatles. For the car, see Volkswagen Beetle. This article is about the insect. For other uses, see Beetle (disambiguation). Beetle Temporal range: 318–0&#160;Ma …

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  • 120Esotericism — Arcane and Esoteric redirect here. For other uses, see Arcane (disambiguation) and Esoteric (disambiguation). Esotericism or Esoterism signifies the holding of esoteric opinions or beliefs,[1] that is, ideas preserved or understood by a small&#8230; …

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