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.]

Examples of "setup" in Sentences

That is not the setup in the US.
I reverted the original setup of the template.
The current setup appears clumsy and inelegant.
Be careful when you install the setup box for television.
Part of the reason is the setup and flexibility of Wikipedia.
The basic setup of the show underwent many convoluted twists.
Hope that helps as to the intention of the setup of the article.
A setup of the architecture also shifts the focus of the building.
It's a bit dangerous for me when the setup is as interesting as WWI.
The tricky part of the setup is to adjust the length of the deadline.
As usual in machining, the shorter and more rigid the setup, the better.
Foreign investors furnished most of the capital for the setup of the project.
One of the things missing from my setup is the ability to work with parameters in Sonar DAW from a hardware position.
The way Gateway has it setup is so that without a valid in-warranty serial, there is no way to get a hold of tech support!
So I click setup and it just opens up Opera with "file: / NoData / _setup. xml" in the url box with a white screen never ends.
Fring is ok but Skype not only simulates the iPhone calling setup, which is quite sexy, but Skype also allows you to use the keypad during a call.
This setup is all well and good except for the fact that the position of the TV makes it useful only as long as you are not using anything else at the same time.
The cornerstone of this setup is a feature available to almost all newer computers known as Wake-on-LAN (or WOL), which — as the name suggests — turns on your PC through your local network.
The thirteen episodes here are split across four discs in a four/four/five format, though it's worth noting that the title setup on the third disc is set for 69 minutes and a second title for 46 minutes, which makes you question the number of episodes on the disc at first.

Examples of "set-up" in Sentences

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.

setup

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set up

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set-up

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Examples of "setup" in Sentences

Examples of "set-up" in Sentences

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