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Mutator vs. Setter — What's the Difference?

Mutator vs. Setter — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Mutator and Setter

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Mutator

To undergo or cause to undergo mutation.

Setter

The setter is a type of gundog used most often for hunting game such as quail, pheasant, and grouse. In the UK, the four setter breeds, together with the pointers, usually form a subgroup within the gundog group as they share a common function.

Mutator

That which causes mutation or change.
In object-oriented programming, the mutator function changes the value of the field that gives its name.

Setter

One that sets
A setter of printing type.
A setter of rabbit traps.

Setter

Any of several breeds of long-haired hunting dogs originally trained to indicate the presence of game by crouching in a set position.
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Setter

A typesetter.

Setter

One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.

Setter

A long-haired breed of gundog.
She has a spaniel and a red setter.

Setter

(volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.

Setter

(object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.

Setter

A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.

Setter

One who hunts victims for sharpers.

Setter

One who adapts words to music in composition.

Setter

A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Setter

To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Setter

One who, or that which, sets; - used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.

Setter

A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.

Setter

One who hunts victims for sharpers.

Setter

One who adapts words to music in composition.

Setter

An adornment; a decoration; - with off.
They come as . . . setters off of thy graces.

Setter

A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Setter

To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Setter

One who sets written material into type

Setter

A long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point

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