Synonyms of the word

setting

• v. present participle of set.
• n. The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
• n. The act of setting.
• n. A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
• n. A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
• n. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
• n. Hunting with a setter.
• n. Something set in, or inserted.
• n. A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
• adj. that disappears below the horizon.

background

• adj. Less important in a scene.
• n. One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
• n. A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
• n. Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
• n. A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
• n. (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application…
• n. (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
• v. To put in a position that is not prominent.

environment

• n. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
• n. The natural world or ecosystem.
• n. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
• n. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
• n. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
• n. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…
• n. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with…

environs

• n. The surroundings; the environment.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of environ.

mount

• n. A mountain.
• n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences…
• n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
• n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
• n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse.
• n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
• v. (heading, physical) To move upwards.
• v. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
• v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
• v. (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
• v. (transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
• v. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

mounting

• adj. that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
• v. present participle of mount.
• n. Something mounted; an attachment.
• n. The act of one who mounts.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

scene

• n. The location of an event that attracts attention.
• n. (theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the…
• n. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go…
• n. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence,…
• n. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play,…
• n. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their…
• n. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
• n. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often,…
• n. An element of fiction writing.
• n. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere…
• v. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

scope

• n. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
• n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
• n. (computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
• n. (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
• n. (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
• n. (slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
• v. To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.
• v. (slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.
• v. (slang) To examine under a microscope.

service

• n. An act of being of assistance to someone.
• n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
• n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
• n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
• n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
• n. The military.
• n. A set of dishes or utensils.
• n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other…
• n. A religious rite or ritual.
• n. (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
• n. (Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Israel, West Bank) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom…
• n. A musical composition for use in churches.
• n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
• n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
• v. (transitive) To serve.
• v. (transitive) To perform maintenance.
• v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
• n. service tree.

stage

• n. A phase.
• n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• n. A floor or storey of a house.
• n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
• n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
• v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
• v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
• v. To place in position to prepare for use.

surround

• v. (transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• n. (Britain) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

surroundings

• n. plural of surrounding.
• n. the area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity;…
• n. (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.