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SET UP

Definition:

1. [verb] set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
   Synonyms: establish, found, launch
   
   
2. [verb] make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"
   Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, tack, tack together
   
   
3. [verb] construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
   Synonyms: raise, erect, rear, put up
   
   
4. [verb] get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
   Synonyms: lay out, set
   
   
5. [verb] put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"
   Synonyms: arrange
   
   
6. [verb] begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election"
   
   
7. [verb] take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
   Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, frame
   
   
8. [verb] produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave"
   Synonyms: effect, effectuate, bring about
   
   
9. [verb] set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink"
   Synonyms: install, instal, put in
   
   
10. [verb] place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
    Synonyms: install, instal, establish
    
    
11. [verb] arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"
    Synonyms: rig
    
    
12. [verb] erect and fasten; "pitch a tent"
    Synonyms: pitch
    
    
13. [verb] arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
    Synonyms: arrange, put, order
    
    
14. [verb] equip with sails, masts, etc.; "rig a ship"
    Synonyms: rig, set
    
    
15. [verb] 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"
    Synonyms: fix, prepare, ready, gear up, set
    
    
16. [adjective] well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up"
    
    

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Related Words:

• confect, confection, comfit
• jumble, confuse, mix up
• reassemble
• configure
• compound
• rig up
• regularize, regularise
• order
• order
• straighten
• rearrange
• serialize, serialise
• alphabetize, alphabetise
• organize, organise, coordinate
• stratify
• string, thread, draw
• marshal
• string
• string out, spread out
• preen, plume
• stack
• chain
• pair, geminate
• concord
• cascade
• settle
• pyramid
• corral
• catenate, catenulate
• dress, decorate
• range, array, lay out, set out
• pack, bundle, wad, compact
• stack, pile, heap
• stagger, distribute
• drape
• drape
• set
• gradate
• line up
• carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
• draw, get
• precipitate
• induce, stimulate, rush, hasten
• serve
• retrofit
• reinstall
• post, put up
• camp, camp down
• synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
• socialize, socialise
• provide
• cram
• precondition
• fix
• mount
• set up, lay out, set
• winterize, winterise
• summerize, summerise
• prime
• cultivate, crop, work
• brace, poise

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