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.]