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nonsetter

noun

Etymology

From non- + setter.

  1. inherited from settere
  2. prefixed as nonsetter — “non + setter”

Definitions

  1. One who is not a setter (in various senses).

    • In this sample, twenty of the twenty-seven fire setters received a primary or secondary diagnosis of conduct disorder, compared with only eleven of twenty-seven nonsetters.
    • Beginning a few years ago, I asked my nonsetters to bump-set every ball from the backcourt.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonsetter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA