set up
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Pronunciation
- enPR: sĕt'ŭp'
Verb
set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)
- (transitive) To ready for use.
- We set up the sprinkler.
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- Set up my CD collection.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
- Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- The election was set up!
- (intransitive) To ready something for use.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
- (intransitive) 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.
- The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- Winning the lottery has set them up for life.
- A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- If you ever need anything, come back here, and I'll set you up!
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.
- She set herself up as an interior designer.
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 286–7:
- 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.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- On 71.05, Portu brilliantly set up Yangel Herrera, only for Marc-André ter Stegen to make a sensational save.
- (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.
- to set up in trade; to set up for oneself
- 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
- 1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- 1950, Jack Dempsey, chapter 23, in Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense:
- 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.
- 1997 September 24, Joe Duffy, “TRIBUTES TO THE MAN AND THE BOXER”, in Hartford Courant:
- Writer Danny Wamboldt of Ring magazine said, "Only Willie knew how to set up his opponents masterfully and then move in." Wamboldt, a former New England bantamweight champion and current national president of the Veteran Boxers Association, said that one of Pep's opponents said of his dazzling speed: "It was the first time he had been surrounded by one man."
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (obsolete, printing) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
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Translations
to ready something for use
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to order logically
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to cause to happen
to trap or ensnare
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to arrange for an outcome
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to gel or harden
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Adjective
set up (comparative more set up, superlative most set up)
- In a position to function; ready.
- Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!
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- setup (noun)
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