set out

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verb

1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action (Freq. 9)
- We began working at dawn
- Who will start?
- Get working as soon as the sun rises!
- The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
- He began early in the day
- Let's get down to work now
• Syn:
get down, begin, get, start out, start,
set about, commence
• Ant:
end (for: begin)
• Derivationally related forms:
commencement (for: commence), start (for: start), starter (for: start), beginner (for: begin), beginning (for: begin)
• Hyponyms:
recommence, strike out, fall, jump off, get to,
auspicate, attack, break in, plunge, launch, come on,
embark, enter, get cracking, bestir oneself, get going, get moving,
get weaving, get started, get rolling
• Verb Group:
begin
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s VERB-ing
2. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line (Freq. 5)
- lay out the clothes
- lay out the arguments
• Syn:
range, array, lay out
• Derivationally related forms:
array (for: array)
• Hypernyms:
arrange, set up
• Hyponyms:
compart
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. leave (Freq. 3)
- The family took off for Florida
• Syn:
depart, part, start, start out, set forth,
set off, take off
• See Also:
part with (for: part)
• Derivationally related forms:
takeoff (for: take off), parting (for: part), departure (for: depart), departer (for: depart)
• Hypernyms:
leave, go forth, go away
• Hyponyms:
take off, lift off, roar off, blaze, blaze out,
sally forth, sally out
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- The children set out to the playground