Definitions for set up
set up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. establish, set up, found, launchverb

   set up or found

   "She set up a literacy program"

2. assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack togetherverb

   create by putting components or members together

   "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

3. raise, erect, rear, set up, put upverb

   construct, build, or erect

   "Raise a barn"

4. set up, lay out, setverb

   get ready for a particular purpose or event

   "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"

5. arrange, set upverb

   put into a proper or systematic order

   "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

6. set upverb

   begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.

   "set up an election"

7. ensnare, entrap, frame, set upverb

   take or catch as if in a snare or trap

   "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

8. effect, effectuate, set upverb

   produce

   "The scientists set up a shock wave"

9. install, instal, put in, set upverb

   set up for use

   "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"

10. install, instal, set up, establishverb

    place

    "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"

11. rig, set upverb

    arrange the outcome of by means of deceit

    "rig an election"

12. pitch, set upverb

    erect and fasten

    "pitch a tent"

13. arrange, set up, put, orderverb

    arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

    "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

14. rig, set, set upverb

    equip with sails or masts

    "rig a ship"

15. fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, setverb

    make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

    "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. set upverb

   To ready something for use.

2. set upverb

   Logically order.

3. set upverb

   To cause to happen

4. set upverb

   To trap or ensnare.

5. set upverb

   Arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

6. set upverb

   To gel or harden.

7. set upverb

   To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

8. set upverb

   To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.

9. set upverb

   To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

10. set upadjective

    In a position to function; ready.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. set up

   Set up generally refers to the action or process of arranging, organizing, establishing, preparing or assembling something in advance in order to begin a process, activity or an event. This could apply to a wide range of things, such as setting up equipment, a business, a plan, a meeting, a system, or a computer program.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. set up

   Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in their carriage, are "well set up."

Matched Categories

1. • Cause
   • Change
   • Cheat
   • Construct
   • Construction
   • Create
   • Equip
   • Erect
   • Join
   • Open
   • Organize
   • Place
   • Prepare

Anagrams for set up »

1. stupe

2. upset

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of set up in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of set up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of set up in a Sentence

1. Andrew Bosomworth:

   We will continue to hire equities experts and will, step by step, set up products. But that will not happen overnight. It has taken Pimco 30 years to get to assets under management of $1 trillion in bonds. We cannot expect wonders in the equities business.

2. Chelsea Gridley-Smith:

   Local health departments know who they see as peers. So, a rural county may look to Chicago for guidance, but not for similarities. But if they can compare themselves to another rural county, they might be able to find more and more programs like themselves, those are the places where having everything compiled in a CDC location allows us to explore the possibility for expanding partnership outside of just one state with the similarities around county size and jurisdiction size and population type and infrastructure set-up.

3. Ben Warlick:

   It would be hard for anyone to really make a lot of money attacking states because every county is different, creating a large nationwide system would just be too difficult to set up.

4. Rolf Bulander:

   The companies can monitor the distance driven and set up an early appointment with a garage if parts are suffering from wear and tear.

5. Philip Scruggs:

   I think it is too early for us or anyone else to opine on how Brexit is going to play out, but I can tell you that the aircraft leasing business is set up to deal with temporary issues in geographic areas whether it is Russia or Brazil or The UK for us or Europe. North America was slow for 10 years and then North America has been on fire the last three years.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=set up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Set_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=set up