setup

IPA: sˈɛtʌp

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.

set up

IPA: sˈɛtˈʌp

(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.

IPA: sˈɛtʌp

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

He will be working with the scouting set-up and also on transfers.
France 24 said it didn't rule out that it was the victim of a set-up.
And you can, without question, make your kid's world very, very good outside of the traditional family set-up.
This changed recently, however, when HDTV came along and one of the options you can select during set-up is alternative captioning services.
Mr. Smith said he frequently cooked in that temporary set-up for about seven years, before eventually installing a new kitchen with his wife, Charlotte.
"Interstellar Signals" had more gravitas, with Mr. Colley playing arco bass and Mr. Rogers extracting theremin-like sounds from his floorboard electronics set-up.
But while the Blue Course looks more daunting than ever, it will be a set-up familiar to many Americans on the PGA Tour, where dozens of courses have gone under the Open Doctor's knife.
Why does the storyline function as a handbook for aspiring Green Lanterns they're the elite guardians of the universe and a set-up for a sequel, but not as a coherent adventure with appealing characters?
In late May, both Obama and Vice President Biden sent out e-mails about Sotomayor to their supporters using the e-mail list of Organizing for America, an organization affiliated with the Democratic National Committee that was set-up to continue the grassroots work of the millions who supported Obama during the presidential campaign.