Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not yet firm or solidified.
- adjective Not mounted in a setting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not set; not placed. Unplanted.
- Not sunk below the horizon, as the sun.
- Not fixed; unappointed. See
steven . - Not placed in a setting; unmounted: as, unset gems.
- Not set, as a broken limb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not set; not fixed or appointed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not set; not fixed or appointed.
- verb transitive To make not
set .
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Examples
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It's also possible to perform additional tasks when working with the "isset ()" and "unset ()" PHP functions, but in this case by using another set of complementary functions, called "__isset ()" and "__unset ()" respectively.
Dev Shed - RSS Feeds 2009
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I'm primarily a PHP programmer and I find myself calling the unset () function regularly and this is entirely down to being a little obsessive about resources.
Coding Horror 2009
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I just checked your cookies and found the cookie domain to be 'unset'
phpBB.com MarcD 2010
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I just checked your cookies and found the cookie domain to be 'unset'
phpBB.com MarcD 2010
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I just checked your cookies and found the cookie domain to be 'unset'
phpBB.com MarcD 2010
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I just checked your cookies and found the cookie domain to be 'unset'
phpBB.com MarcD 2010
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I just checked your cookies and found the cookie domain to be 'unset'
phpBB.com MarcD 2010
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I didn't know that boolean had a third "unset" value, is that just phpBB specific? phpBB's Boolean CPFs have three options; it's not a PHP boolean, so true/false doesn't work in this situation.
phpBB.com 2010
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= ANONYMOUS) $can_watch = true; if ($notify_status = = 'unset') $sql = "SELECT notify_status
phpBB.com 2010
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= ANONYMOUS) $can_watch = true; if ($notify_status = = 'unset') $sql = "SELECT notify_status
phpBB.com Hottybottie 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word unset
What does the third Cent. Dict. definition mean about steven?
August 11, 2011
bilby commented on the word unset
Seems the antonym of unset, with meaning 'not fixed', is set or steven.
August 11, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word unset
Could something be unsteven?
August 11, 2011
bilby commented on the word unset
I'll concede you even-steven. Uneven-unsteven might be stretching the friendship a little.
August 11, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word unset
Who's Steven?
August 11, 2011
bilby commented on the word unset
King Wenceslas' galley slave.
August 11, 2011
dontcry commented on the word unset
Probably my favorite Christmas Carol I don't know all the words to...( there are many). But it's a tune I can get down with.
August 11, 2011