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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
set about
1. begin to deal with (Freq. 3)
- approach a task
- go about a difficult problem
- approach a new project
• Syn:
go about, approach
• Derivationally related forms:
approach (for: approach)
• Hypernyms:
act, move
• Hyponyms:
confront, face up, face
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s VERB-ing
2. enter upon an activity or enterprise (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
undertake, attempt
• Derivationally related forms:
undertaking (for: undertake)
• Hypernyms:
initiate, pioneer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s VERB-ing
3. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- We began working at dawn
- Who will start?
- Get working as soon as the sun rises!
- The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
- He began early in the day
- Let's get down to work now
• Syn:
get down, begin, get, start out, start,
set out, commence
• Ant:
end (for: begin)
• Derivationally related forms:
commencement (for: commence), start (for: start), starter (for: start), beginner (for: begin), beginning (for: begin)
• Hyponyms:
recommence, strike out, fall, jump off, get to,
auspicate, attack, break in, plunge, launch, come on,
embark, enter, get cracking, bestir oneself, get going, get moving,
get weaving, get started, get rolling
• Verb Group:
begin
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s VERB-ing
- They set about moving
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