setting

réglage, paramètre

Option qui détermine le fonctionnement d’un appareil ou d’un programme.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : change a setting, default setting, privacy setting, volume setting

cadre

Lieu, époque et circonstances dans lesquels se déroule une histoire ou un spectacle.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : the setting of/for something (A small village is the setting for the novel.)

Synonymes : background, context

Expressions courantes : historical setting, setting of something, rural setting

mise en place, coucher, prise

Action de mettre quelque chose en place, ou phénomène comme le coucher du soleil.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : the setting of something (We watched the setting of the sun.)

Expressions courantes : setting of something, setting of the sun, setting of concrete

couchant

Se dit du soleil ou d’un autre astre qui descend sous l’horizon.

En anglais simple : 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.

Contraires : rising

Expressions courantes : setting sun, setting moon, light of setting sun