SET OUT meaning: Begin or initiate a task

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word set out:

General (15 matching dictionaries)

set out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
set out: Merriam-Webster
set out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
set-out, set-out, set out: Collins English Dictionary
set out: Vocabulary.com
set-out: Wordnik
set out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
set out: Wiktionary
set out: Dictionary.com
set out: Rhymezone
set out: FreeDictionary.org
set out: Mnemonic Dictionary
set out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

set out: Legal dictionary
set out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

set out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

set out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

set out: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Set-Out, set out: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Book Binding (No longer online)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky

Definitions from Wiktionary (set out)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To go out, leave.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To start an activity with the intention of finishing it.
▸ verb:  (UK, transitive) To position, to put in a position
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete, printing) To arrange the necessary type into a printing press in preparation to run it.

Similar:

lay out, set forth, set about, commence, begin, get, start, depart, start out, set off, more...

Opposite:

set in

Types:

array, disperse, scatter, sprinkle, more...

Phrases:

set out stall, to set out, set out one's stall, set out to, set out your stall, more...

Adjectives:

set, set up, put up, typeset, make-do, moving, put out, motive

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, vermilion, ruby, coral, more...