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单词 set out
释义 set out
transitive verb
1. obsolete : to equip and send out
2.
 a. : issue, promulgate
  < this act sets out the personnel of a tribunal as follows — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox >
 b. : to recite, describe, or state at large
  < distributed copies of a pamphlet setting out his ideas in full — S.F.Mason >
3. obsolete : to place in relief : set off
4.
 a. : to arrange and present graphically or systematically
  < the grammar is well set out >
  < in fig. 67 you will see set out the semaphore code — Peter Heaton >
 b. : to mark out (as a design) : lay out the plan of
  < sets out the wood with square and marking knife, shapes and joints it — Choice of Careers: Furniture Manufacturing >
 c. : to smooth or flatten (a wet hide or skin) when dressing
5. : to separate (a railroad car) from a train and place on a siding
6. : to begin with a definite purpose : intend, undertake
 < given up the attempt to read poets who set out deliberately to mystify him — Douglas Stewart >
 < necessary for the effect he set out to produce — Bernard De Voto >
intransitive verb
: to start out on a course, a journey, or a career
 < set out across the sea >
 < set out early from his cabin >
 < the engineering course he had originally set out on >
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