Environment vs. Setting — What's the Difference?

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

The position, direction, or way in which something, such as an automatic control, is set.

The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity

The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background.

The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans

The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place.

A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem

(Music) A composition written or arranged to fit a text, such as a poetical work.

The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms

A mounting, as for a jewel.

The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.

A place setting.

The general set of conditions or circumstances

A set of eggs in a hen's nest.

The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.

Present participle of set

An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.

The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

The act of setting.

The natural world or ecosystem.

A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.

All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

Hunting with a setter.

(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.

Something set in, or inserted.

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).

Act of environing; state of being environed.

The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.

That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

The direction of a current of wind.

The totality of surrounding conditions;

That disappears below the horizon

The area in which something exists or lives;

The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.

Something set in, or inserted.

That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.

The time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.

The context and environment in which something is set;

The state of the environment in which a situation exists;

Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

The physical position of something;

A table service for one person;

Mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;

(of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon;