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set-top

[ set-top ]
/ ˈsɛtˌtɒp /
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adjective
denoting a device designed to sit atop a television and serve as a link to interactive communications systems: set-top boxes that allow viewers to order movies on demand.
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Origin of set-top

First recorded in 1990–95

Words nearby set-top

settlings, settling tank, settlor, set-to, set tongues wagging, set-top, set-top box, set to rights, Setúbal, setula, setulose
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How to use set-top in a sentence

  • Apple watchers are convinced there will be an announcement about Apple's set-top device, but nothing major.

    Apple Reveals New iPhone Tuesday|Brian Ries|September 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST

  • Next morning, early, I had the watch, and an order was given to set top-gallant studding-sails.

    Afloat And Ashore|James Fenimore Cooper

  • She had been lying with her mainsail to the mast, but she evidently had made us out, for she filled and set top-gallant sails.

    The Privateersman|Frederick Marryat
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