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Frame Alien In Fraud Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "SETTING" which means:
- noun
- • The context and environment in which something is set
- • The state of the environment in which a situation exists
- • Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- • The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
- • The physical position of something
- • A table service for one person
- • A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place verb
- • To put (something) down, to rest.
- • To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- • To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- • To start (a fire).
- • To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
- • To determine or settle.
- • To adjust.
- • To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- • To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- • To introduce or describe.
- • To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- • To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- • To prepare (a stage or film set).
- • To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- • To arrange (type).
- • To devise and assign (work) to.
- • To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- • To solidify.
- • To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- • Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- • To defeat a contract.
- • (now followed by "out", as in set out) to begin to move; to go forth.
- • To produce after pollination.
- • (of fruit) to be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- • (midwestern us) to sit (be in a seated position).
- • To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- • Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- • To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- • To fit music to words.
- • To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- • To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- • To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- • (country dancing) to acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- • To place or fix in a setting.
- • To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- • To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- • To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- • To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- • To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- • To wager in gambling; to risk.
- • To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- • To value; to rate; used with at.
- • To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- • To suit; to become.
- • To divide a class group in a subject according to ability adjective
- • That disappears below the horizon
An example sentence would be:
- • "The setting of the story takes place in a small village."
- • "The restaurant has a beautiful outdoor setting with a view of the ocean."
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