set(3) (iou) and drug industry (medicine)

set(3) (iou)

set noun2. Also sett. LME.
[Old French sette from Latin secta SECT noun1, infl. by & merging with SET noun1. In branch II perh. partly due to Middle Low German gesette.]
I. Of people.
A religious body, a sect. LME-M16.
A number, company, or group of people associated by community of status, habits, occupations, or interests; a social group, esp. of a select or exclusive character. LME.
Bloomsbury set, jet set, smart set, etc.
Sir W. Scott A set of smugglers, gipsies, and Other desperadoes. C. Connolly He moved in a fast set of hard-smoking and hard-swearing cronies. M. Bradbury All the girls..in her set round the village are buying Miele dishwashers.
The number of couples required to perform a country Dance or square Dance. E18.
A subdivision of pupils or students for instruction on a particular subject, freq. constituted according to ability. L18.
A (regular) meeting of a gang or group in a particular urban locality, esp. a party; the place where such a group meets. US colloq. M20.
II. Of things.
A complete collection of the individual pieces or items belonging together, as composing a suite of furniture, a service of china, a clothing outfit, etc.; a collection of instruments, tools, or machines customarily used together in a particular operation; a complete apparatus employed for some specific purpose. LME.
chess set, duchesse set, giving-set, pumpset, starter set, twin set, etc. break a set: see BREAK verb.
Saki A liqueur glass, one out of a set of seven that would be impossible to match. R. Lardner A 'set' of jewelry consisting of an opal brooch, a bracelet of opals.., and an opal ring. A. Bleasdale A complete and matching set of pyjamas, top and bottom.
b. A piece of electrical or electronic apparatus, as a telephone, a telegraph receiver or transmitter, a Radio or Television receiver, etc. L19.
handset etc.
B. Vine If you want Television..why don't you buy a set of your own?
a. A number of musical instruments arranged to play together. Now only, a suite of bells to be rung together. M16.
b. An assemblage of pipes constituting bagpipes or (formerly) an organ. L18.
set of bagpipes.
A string of beads. M16-M17.
A collection of volumes by one author, dealing with one subject, belonging to one department of literature, or issued in a series; a complete series of the parts of a periodical publication. Also, a series of prints by the same engraver. L16.
Ld Macaulay All the Edinburgh Reviews are being bound, so that we shall have a complete set up to the forthcoming number. L. Hellman There were no books Other than a set of Prescott.
A number of things connected in temporal or spatial succession or by natural production or formation. E17.
Sir W. Scott A new set of words to the old tune.
The complement of teeth which a person or animal has; a pair of plates holding artificial teeth. L17.
A team of (usu. six) horses. Now rare or obsolete. L17.
A number of things grouped together according to a system of classification or conceived as forming a whole. L17.
a set of steps: see STEP noun1 9b.
Goldsmith An exact plan..of Nature's operations in this minute set of creatures. M. Edgeworth The set of notions which he had acquired from his Education.
A series of buildings or apartments associated in use; esp. a suite of apartments let as lodgings. E18.
C. P. Snow The room was cosier..than in most college sets.
The series of movements or figures that make up a square Dance or country Dance, esp. the quadrille. E18.
running set: see RUNNING adjective.
Math. & Logic. An assemblage or collection of (real or notional) entities which either satisfy specified conditions or else are specified individually. M19.
empty set: containing no elements. universal set: see UNIVERSAL adjective.
A number of pieces of jazz or popular Music performed in sequence by a musician or group. M20.
A fixed number of repetitions of a particular body-building Exercise, performed as a unit. M20.
Comb.: set theory the branch of mathematics that deals with sets without regard to the Nature of the elements of which they are composed; an axiomatization which allows of the discussion of sets; set-theoretic, set-theoretical adjectives of or pertaining to set theory; set-theoretically adverb by means of or as regards set theory; set-top box a box-shaped signal decoder for viewing cable or satellite Television or giving Television access to the Internet, or for converting a digital Television signal to analogue for viewing on a conventional set.

drug industry (medicine)

drug industry

That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or Other dysfunction, or to improve function.

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