What is "set your stitches?"

How-to Questions
1

I am knitting a Rowan sweater pattern and they use the term “set your stitches”. Does anyone know what that means?

thanks. :shrug:

2

Where in the pattern does it say this? If it’s the first row of your pattern stitches, it could be referring to he set-up row, where your stitches get laid out ready to start the pattern stitches.