set up
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set up
- /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/
verb sets up · setting up · set up
- To make ready 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 prepare or get ready. Used with an implied object obvious from context.
- To gel or harden. Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
- 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.
- 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.
- To establish someone in a business or position. After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.
- To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them. 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). 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.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for). Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.
- 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
- To found; to start (a business, scheme) With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver. 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.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air. Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]
- Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
adjective more set up · most set up
- In a position to function; ready. Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!
