setting

ajuste, configuración

Opción que determina cómo funciona un aparato o un programa.

En inglés sencillo: An option on a machine or program that controls how it works.

• Change the setting to save power.
• Check your phone’s privacy settings.
• The machine remembers the last setting you used.

Expresiones frecuentes: change a setting, default setting, privacy setting, volume setting

ambientación, escenario

Lugar, época y circunstancias en que se desarrolla una historia o una representación.

En inglés sencillo: The place, time, and situation in which a story or performance happens.

• The story has a modern setting.
• The setting of the play is ancient Rome.
• She chose a seaside town as the setting for her novel.

Cómo se usa: the setting of/for something (A small village is the setting for the novel.)

Sinónimos: background, context

Expresiones frecuentes: historical setting, setting of something, rural setting

colocación, puesta, fraguado

Acción de poner algo en su sitio, o proceso como la puesta del sol.

En inglés sencillo: The act of putting something in place, or a process such as the sun going down.

• The setting of the sun filled the sky with colour.
• The setting of the table took several minutes.
• Cold weather can slow the setting of concrete.

Cómo se usa: the setting of something (We watched the setting of the sun.)

Expresiones frecuentes: setting of something, setting of the sun, setting of concrete

poniente

Describe al sol u otro cuerpo celeste mientras desaparece bajo el horizonte.

En inglés sencillo: Describing the sun or another object in the sky as it moves below the horizon.

• We watched the setting sun.
• The setting moon disappeared behind the hills.
• The setting sun cast long shadows across the field.

Antónimos: rising

Expresiones frecuentes: setting sun, setting moon, light of setting sun