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set one's hand to

set one's hand to is the alternative form of turn one's hand to.

Meaning of turn one's hand to

Verb

turn one's hand to (third-person singular simple present turns one's hand to, present participle turning one's hand to, simple past and past participle turned one's hand to)

  1. To adapt or apply oneself to; to engage in; to undertake.
    • Having failed as a musician, I turned my hand to pottery instead.

Forms of set one's hand to

third-person singular presentsets one's hand to
present participlesetting one's hand to
past participleset one's hand to
pastset one's hand to

Questions about set one's hand to

What is set one's hand to the alternative form of?
Set one's hand to is the alternative form of turn one's hand to.

Words near set one's hand to in the dictionary

  1. set on foot
  2. set one's affairs in order
  3. set one's cap at
  4. set one's face against
  5. set one's hair on fire
  6. set one's hand to
  7. set one's heart on
  8. set one's heart upon
  9. set one's house in order
  10. set one's shoulder to the wheel
  11. set one's sights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: set one's hand to (page history and authors); turn one's hand to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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