Thesaurus results for SETTINGS

settings

noun

plural of setting

as in environments

the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded the novice camper felt lost outside of his familiar urban setting

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as in scenes

the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set the setting for the novel is Victorian England

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Recent Examples of settings Secure your email and phone Change important passwords, use a password manager to create and store strong, unique passwords, review recovery settings and add account protections through your wireless provider. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026 Olejnik said the latest findings suggested rogue behavior may not be confined to those settings. — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026 For those of you fantasy nerds who want to customize anything and everything, Ciely’s customizable cheat sheet will give you complete control over league settings, player projections and more. — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 The chassis, too, is formed from aluminum and houses double-wishbone suspension complemented with adjustable dampers (three settings available). — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2026 Hybrid trials require an execution model that coordinates workflows across settings and applies protocol logic consistently. — Avik Pal, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The person who passed screening tests as a recruit may not do as well at a later career stage, despite opportunities provided in the military, firefighting, or other settings for continued training and evaluations. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026 Be sure to adjust the spreader settings to reduce the application rate by half with this approach. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 29 Aug. 2026 The system also cannot solve physical hardware failures simply by changing software settings. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The platform provides security, artificial intelligence capabilities, and wireless connectivity for applications spanning smart homes, industrial systems, healthcare, commercial environments, and smart cities.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
Since its opening in 2012, the Wythe has often been cited as a model of how to revitalize industrial buildings and environments.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of environments

Noun

But, though the special effects are killer, what makes the show click is its suspenseful melancholy, as quiet scenes build to jolts so intense that the whole audience screamed.

— Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Yet most of the scenes are scripted and intended to be tongue in cheek, conveying the musicians’ irreverent sense of humor.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of scenes

Noun

As has our play in the Coliseum, including running the table last year in front of a lot of epic atmospheres.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of atmospheres

Noun

While this may seem incongruous with some of his emotional displays on the field, coaches with different backgrounds and specialties have consistently described Crow-Armstrong as approachable and teachable.

— Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Hover over the chart for the average daily booking information for detainees with different criminal backgrounds -- before, during and after the blitz.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of backgrounds

Noun

Neither are ideal, but this hasn’t prevented City fans from generating a decent atmosphere inside their new surrounds, particularly during last season’s run-in when the final nine home games were all won.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
One skyscraper amidst a sea of them, the Four Seasons San Francisco at Embarcadero blends in with its surrounds.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026

Definition of surrounds

Noun

For most of the season, WEC runs in European locales during the spring and early summer.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Community science initiatives to collect bat genetic residues have helped research uncover the state's 29th species and understand bat behavior in different locales.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026