English to English
verb
- set up or found
She set up a literacy program.
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- create by putting components or members together
She pieced a quilt.
He tacked together some verses.
They set up a committee.
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- construct, build, or erect
Raise a barn.
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- get ready for a particular purpose or event
Set up an experiment.
Set the table.
Lay out the tools for the surgery.
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- put into a proper or systematic order
Arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order.
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- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
Set up an election.
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- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
I was set up!.
The innocent man was framed by the police.
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- produce
The scientists set up a shock wave.
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- set up for use
Install the washer and dryer.
We put in a new sink.
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- place
Her manager had set her up at the Ritz.
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- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
Rig an election.
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- erect and fasten
Pitch a tent.
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- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
Arrange my schedule.
Set up one's life.
I put these memories with those of bygone times.
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- equip with sails or masts
Rig a ship.
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- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
Get the children ready for school!.
Prepare for war.
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill.
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