From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
set up
v 1: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn:
establish, set up, found, launch] [ant: abolish,
get rid of]
2: create by putting components or members together; "She pieced
a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a
committee" [syn: assemble, piece, put together, set
up, tack, tack together] [ant: break apart, break
up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart]
3: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise,
erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle,
level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear
down]
4: get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an
experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the
surgery" [syn: set up, lay out, set]
5: put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on
the shelves in chronological order" [syn: arrange, set
up] [ant: disarrange]
6: begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by
providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election"
7: take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The
innocent man was framed by the police" [syn: ensnare,
entrap, frame, set up]
8: produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave" [syn: effect,
effectuate, set up]
9: set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a
new sink" [syn: install, instal, put in, set up]
10: place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" [syn:
install, instal, set up, establish]
11: arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"
[syn: rig, set up]
12: erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" [syn: pitch, set up]
13: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my
schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with
those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put,
order]
14: equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship" [syn: rig, set,
set up]
15: 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" [syn: fix, prepare, set
up, ready, gear up, set]