set-up
Verbs
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(v) set up or found
- She set up a literacy program
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(v) 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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(v) construct, build, or erect
- Raise a barn
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(v) 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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(v) put into a proper or systematic order
- arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
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(v) begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- set up an election
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(v) 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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(v) produce
- The scientists set up a shock wave
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(v) set up for use
- install the washer and dryer
- We put in a new sink
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(v) place
- Her manager had set her up at the Ritz
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(v) arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- rig an election
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(v) erect and fasten
- pitch a tent
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(v) 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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(v) equip with sails or masts
- rig a ship
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(v) 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