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set

set (sports scoring unit)

noun SET Rare
Arts & Culture Sports

Also means

set (collection or kit)

Usage Note

Set is a direct English borrowing used in tennis and volleyball to name a scoring division: mener deux sets à un. In everyday French it also denotes a table mat (set de table), making it one of those compact loans that covers two unrelated domains. The plural is regular: des sets.

Examples

"Il a remporté le premier set facilement."

Natural Translation

He won the first set easily.

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