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Adjective set-up has 1 sense
- set up - well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up"
Antonym: unestablished (indirect, via established)
Noun set-up has 3 senses
- apparatus, setup - equipment designed to serve a specific function
--1 is a kind of equipment
--1 has particulars:
- setup - the way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here"
--2 is a kind of manner, mode, style, way, fashion
- frame-up, setup - an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
--3 is a kind of falsification, falsehood
Verb set-up has 15 senses
- establish, set up, found, launch - set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
--1 is one way to open, open up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together - make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"
--2 is a kind of join, bring together; make, create
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- raise, erect, rear, set up, put up - construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
--3 is one way to construct, build, make
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Somebody ----s something
- set up, lay out, set - get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
--4 is one way to fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
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Somebody ----s something
- arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"
--5 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
Sample sentences:
They set up the bags on the table
The men set up the bookshelves
- set up - begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election"
--6 is one way to organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- ensnare, entrap, frame, set up - take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
--7 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentence:
They want to set up the prisoners
- effect, effectuate, bring about, set up - produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave"
--8 is one way to cause, do, make
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Something ----s something
- install, instal, put in, set up - set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"
--9 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
Sample sentence:
They want to set up the doors
- install, instal, set up, establish - place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- rig, set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"
--11 is one way to cheat, chisel
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- pitch, set up - erect and fasten; "pitch a tent"
--12 is one way to rear, erect
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- arrange, set up, put, order - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
--13 is one way to organize, organise
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Somebody ----s something
- rig, set, set up - equip with sails, masts, etc.; "rig a ship"
--14 is one way to equip, fit, fit out, outfit
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Somebody ----s something
- fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set - 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"
--15 is one way to change, alter, modify
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