SET APART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does set apart mean? 

• SET APART (verb)
  The verb SET APART has 2 senses:

1. select something or someone for a specific purpose

2. set apart from others

  Familiarity information: SET APART used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET APART (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Select something or someone for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

assign; set apart; specify

Context example:

The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise

Hypernyms (to "set apart" is one way to...):

choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set apart"):

dedicate (set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church)

detail (assign to a specific task)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Set apart from others

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

isolate; keep apart; sequester; sequestrate; set apart

Context example:

The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on

Hypernyms (to "set apart" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

John quietly set apart a little sum, that he might enjoy the pleasure of keeping the invalid supplied with the fruit she loved and longed for.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“This very night will I set apart a golden ouche to be offered on the shrine of my name-saint. I have pined for this, Aylward, as a young maid pines for her lover.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was the quality that was peculiarly the possession of his kind; the quality that set apart his species from all other species; the quality that has enabled the wolf and the wild dog to come in from the open and be the companions of man.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After this unwarrantable invasion, which not only filled every passage, but even intruded upon the space set apart for the Press, it is estimated that nearly five thousand people awaited the arrival of the travelers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The invitations were sent, nearly all accepted, and the following Monday was set apart for the grand event.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The pleasantest room in the house was set apart for Beth, and in it was gathered everything that she most loved, flowers, pictures, her piano, the little worktable, and the beloved pussies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With a bow to the Abbot, which had in it perhaps more pleasantry than reverence, the novice strode across to the carved prie-dieu which had been set apart for him, and stood silent and erect with his hand upon the gold bell which was used in the private orisons of the Abbot's own household.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)