set up


Meanings

  • equipment designed to serve a specific function
  • the way something is organized or arranged;
  • an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
  • set up or found;
    • "She set up a literacy program"
  • create by putting components or members together;
    • "They set up a committee"
  • construct, build, or erect;
  • get ready for a particular purpose or event;
    • "set up an experiment"
  • put into a proper or systematic order;
  • begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.;
    • "set up an election"
  • take or catch as if in a snare or trap;
    • "I was set up!"
  • produce;
    • "The scientists set up a shock wave"
  • set up for use;
  • place;
  • arrange the outcome of by means of deceit;
  • erect and fasten;
  • arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events;
    • "set up one's life"
  • equip with sails or masts;
  • make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;