For Setting we have terms and definitions in 8 topics. The topics are Costume Jewelry, Drama, Plumbing, Poetry, Psychoactives, Role Playing Games, Shoes and Teacher Evaluation.

Setting (Costume Jewelry)

The mounting or base in which crystals, rhinestones, or other jewelry components are set.

Setting (Drama)

The time and place of a literary work that establish its context. The stories of Sandra Cisneros are set in the American southwest in the mid to late 20th century, those of James Joyce in Dublin, Ireland in the early 20th century.

Setting (Plumbing)

Pumps: vertical distance in feet from the top of the well to the top of the pump.

Setting (Poetry)

The background to a story; the physical location of a play, story, or novel. The setting of a narrative will normally involve both time and place. The setting of A Tale of Two Cities is London and Paris at the time of the French revolution, but the setting of Waiting for Godot is impossible to pin down specifically.

Setting (Psychoactives)

1. Environment - physical, social, and cultural - as a variable that determines people's reactions to drugs and other stimuli.

Setting (Role Playing Games)

In general, the fictional game-world within which a game is set. Within Ron Edwards' Big Model this is one of the five components of Exploration.

Setting (Shoes)

A process of moistening and then drying by heat by which the lasted upper is fixed to the shape of the last in a few minutes so that the last can be released for further use immediately the sole is put on. Synthetic uppers are heat-set without a previous moistening or mulling stage as it is called.

Setting (Teacher Evaluation)

The temporal and physical environment of an event or activity. See Context (Teaching), Learning Environment.

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