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set to

• provide music so that a written work can be produced in a musical form.
• "she set his poem to music"
• begin doing something vigorously.
• "she set to with bleach and scouring pads to make the vases spotless"
• (of a dancer) acknowledge another dancer, typically one's partner, using the steps prescribed.
• "the gentleman sets to and turns with the lady on his left hand"

set-to noun

• a fight or argument.
• "we had a little set-to in the pub"
Similar: argument, quarrel, disagreement, squabble, fight, difference of opinion, dispute, wrangle, clash, altercation, feud, dissension, war of words, contretemps, exchange of views, debate, discussion, discourse, disputation, controversy, tiff, barney, dust-up, bust-up, shouting/slanging match, spat, ding-dong, falling-out, row, afters, rammy,


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