Definition of Stet

1. Verb. Printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion.

Generic synonyms: Annul, Avoid, Invalidate, Nullify, Quash, Void

2. Verb. Printing: direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained (used in the imperative).
Generic synonyms: Direct

Definition of Stet

1. subj. 3d pers. sing. Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.

2. v. t. To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

Definition of Stet

1. to cancel a previously made printing correction [v STETTED, STETTING, STETS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stet

steroidogenic
steroids
steroid alcohol
steroid hormone
sterol
sterols
Sterope
stertor
stertorous
stertorously
stertors
sterve
sterved
sterves
sterving
stet (current term)
stethoscope
stethoscopes
stethoscopic
stets
Stetson
stetsons
stetted
stetting
Steuben
stevedore
stevedored
stevedores
stevedoring
steven

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