set apart

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set someone apart (from someone else)

to make someone stand out when compared to someone else. Her flaming red hair sets her apart from all the others in her class. They set themselves apart from the rest due to their superb accomplishments.

See also: apart, set

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The Mice thought that the cause of their frequent defeats was that they had no leaders set apart from the general army to command them, and that they were exposed to dangers from lack of discipline. Fables by Aesop View in context Hence there have been, in all ages and nations, certain places set apart for public rendezvous, where the curious might meet and satisfy their mutual curiosity. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context			serve as Serve as a guinea pig serve for serve in serve notice serve on serve out serve right serve time serve to serve under serve up serve with service session set Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil set a precedent Set a thief to catch a thief set a trap set about set about doing set above set against set alarm bells ringing set apart set apart from set aside set at set back set back from set before set beside set down set down as set eyes on set face against set fire to set foot in set for set for life set forth set forth on set forward set free set great store by set heart against set heart on set hopes on set house in order set in			set a trap for set a value on set ablaze set about set about set about set about set about set about doing set above set above others set abroach Set abstraction set adrift Set Adrift on Memory Bliss set afire set aflame set afloat set afoot set against set against set against set against set against set ahead set alarm bells ringing Set America Free set an earlier date set analyzer Set and Clear Enable set apart set apart for special use set apart from set aright set as a goal set ashore set aside set aside set aside set aside set aside set aside Set Aside Grants Set Aside Grants Set Asides Set Asides set associative cache set astir set asunder Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Restricted Set Asynchronous Response Mode set at set at set at set at set at set at ease set at large set at liberty

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