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Set up
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- 1 In a position to function; ready.
"Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!"
- 1 To make ready for use. transitive
"We set up the sprinkler."
- 2 make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc wordnet
- 3 To arrange logically. transitive
"Set up my CD collection."
- 4 get ready for a particular purpose or event wordnet
- 5 To cause to happen. transitive
"Even a minor change can set up new bugs."
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- 6 equip with sails or masts wordnet
- 7 To trap or ensnare. transitive
"I've got to set up that tasty rabbit."
- 8 arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events wordnet
- 9 To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig. transitive
"The election was set up!"
- 10 put into a proper or systematic order wordnet
- 11 To prepare or get ready. intransitive
"Used with an implied object obvious from context."
- 12 erect and fasten wordnet
- 13 To gel or harden. intransitive
"Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it."
- 14 set up for use wordnet
- 15 To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind. intransitive
"The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds."
- 16 place wordnet
- 17 To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity. transitive
"Winning the lottery has set them up for life."
- 18 produce wordnet
- 19 To establish someone in a business or position. transitive
"After he left college, his father set him up in the family business."
- 20 create by putting components or members together wordnet
- 21 To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them. informal, transitive
"They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police."
- 22 construct, build, or erect wordnet
- 23 To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive). transitive
"M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day."
- 24 begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc. wordnet
- 25 To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people. transitive
- 26 set up or found wordnet
- 27 To create a goalscoring opportunity (for). transitive
"Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net."
- 28 arrange the outcome of by means of deceit wordnet
- 29 To begin business or a scheme of life. dated, intransitive
"to set up in trade; to set up for oneself"
- 30 take or catch as if in a snare or trap wordnet
- 31 To profess openly; to make pretensions.
"1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part"
- 32 To found; to start (a business, scheme) transitive
"With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children."
- 33 To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
"When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up."
- 34 To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
"Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]"
- 35 Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset) obsolete
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