setup

IPA: sˈɛtʌp

noun

  • Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
  • The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
  • A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
  • (computing) An installer.
  • (operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
  • (hydrology) The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
  • (boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.

verb

  • Misspelling of set up. [(transitive) To ready for use.]

set up

IPA: sˈɛtˈʌp

verb

  • (transitive) To ready for use.
  • (transitive) To arrange logically.
  • (transitive) To cause to happen.
  • (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
  • (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
  • (intransitive) To ready something for use.
  • (intransitive) To gel or harden.
  • (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.
  • (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
  • (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
  • (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
  • (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
  • (transitive) 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 profess openly; to make pretensions.
  • (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
  • (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
  • To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.

adjective

  • In a position to function; ready.

set-up

IPA: sˈɛtʌp

noun

  • Alternative form of setup. [Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.]
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