From en.wiktionary.org:
[setup]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [sĕt'ŭp']
*** Verb
[set < ,,set> up]
1. [en] [en] To ready for use.
2. [en] To arrange logically.
3. [en] To cause to happen.
4. * [en]
5. [en] To trap or ensnare .
6. [en] To arrange for an outcome ; to tamper or rig .
7. [en] [en] To ready something for use.
8. [en] To gel or harden .
9. [en] 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.
10. [en] To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
11. * [en]
12. [en] To establish someone in a business or position.
13. [en] To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
14. [en] To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
15. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1992 | author=Hilary Mantel | title=A Place of Greater Safety | publisher=Harper Perennial | year_published=2007 | pages=286–7
|passage=M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame,
‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This SET her UP for the day.}}
1. [en] To matchmake ; to arrange a date between two people.
2. [en] To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
3. * [en]
4. * [en-GB]
5. [en] To begin business or a scheme of life.
6. To profess openly; to make pretension s.
7. * 1744 (first printed) [Jonathan Swift] , _On the Testimony of Conscience_
8. *: those men who SET UP for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part
9. [en] To found ; to start (a business, scheme)
10. * [en]
11. [en] To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
12. * [en]
13. * [en]
14. To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
15. * [year=1962]
16. [en] [en] ( _To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset_ )
**** Synonyms
- (_to ready_ ): install , put in , ready , prepare , assemble , configure
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to ready something for use]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [grg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] [de] [de] [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to order logically]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Kurdish:
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to cause to happen]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to trap or ensnare]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [to make look like guilty]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [cause a person to appear guilty]
[trans-bottom]
[to arrange for an outcome]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to gel or harden]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. In a position to function; ready .
**** Synonyms
- _(In a position to function)_ prepared , ready
**** Translations
[in a position to function]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Related terms
- [en] ( _noun_ )
*** Anagrams
- [en]
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