A flat surface things are set out on to be seen together. Also the body that governs. Both are places where matters are laid before others.

To set a thing standing so it stays — founding with intent to last.

Already there before this. Of what must be reckoned with rather than designed.

Closest of those available. Nearness is measured on a chosen axis, and naming it is the whole claim.

What has been picked out from a larger set. Every selection is also a setting aside.

The small seal that marks a thing as its maker's own — identity pressed into the record.