set up
Verb
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Verb
set up
- To ready something for use.
- We set up the sprinkler.
- To arrange logically.
- Set up my CD collection.
- To cause to happen.
- Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
- To trap or ensnare.
- I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- The election was set up!
- To gel or harden.
- Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
- 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.
- 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) to trick someone in order to make them do something.
- They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 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.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 286-7:
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (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
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- French: mettre en place, installer
- German: aufbauen, für den Einsatz vorbereiten, einrichten, installieren
- Italian: preparare, installare, approntare, mettere a punto, creare
- Portuguese: preparar
- Russian: устана́вливать
- Spanish: disponer, montar
- Italian: riordinare
- Russian: расставля́ть
- Italian: causare, determinare
- Russian: вызыва́ть
- Spanish: causar
- French: coincer, entourlouper
- Italian: catturare, intrappolare
- Russian: подставля́ть
- Italian: manipolare
- Russian: подстра́ивать
- Spanish: construir
- Italian: assestarsi, solidificarsi
- Spanish: fortalecer
set up
- In a position to function; ready.
- Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!
- setup (noun)
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