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    American here, I'm going to challenge myself to remember as many as I can.

    Set: A group of things that go together.

    Set: Letting a dessert cool in the fridge

    Set: A stage for a play or film

    Set: A command to put something somewhere

    Set: A part of Tennis

    ...

    5/704 isn't so bad, right?

    Edit: looking up the definitions shows a lot of sub-definitions that essentially have the same meaning. I don't think it's appropriate to say that the word has 435 meanings when "set a course" and "set a fire" are basically "start a thing," yet they're listed as different definitions. The are many many of these cases even just on Google's definition blurb.

    But I'm no dictionary expert so...

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