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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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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]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 13th century 1. a. to raise to and place in a high position b. to place in view ; post c. to put forward (as a plan) for acceptance 2. a. to place upright ; erect <set up a statue> b. to assemble the parts of and erect in position <set up a printing press> c. to put (a machine) in readiness or adjustment for an operation 3. a. cause, create <set up a clamor> b. bring about 4. to place in power or in office <set up the general as dictator> 5. a. to raise from depression ; elate, gratify b. to make proud or vain 6. a. to put forward or extol as a model b. to claim oneself to be <sets himself up as an authority> 7. found, inaugurate <set up a home for orphans> 8. a. to provide with means of making a living <set him up in business> b. to bring or restore to normal health c. to cause (one) to take on a soldierly or athletic appearance especially through drill 9. to erect (a perpendicular or a figure) on a base in a drawing 10. a. to make taut (a stay or hawser) b. to tighten firmly 11. to make carefully worked out plans for <set up a bank robbery> 12. a. to pay for (drinks) b. to treat (someone) to something 13. a. to put in a compromising or dangerous position usually by trickery or deceit b. frame 3 14. to execute one or more plays in preparation for scoring intransitive verb 1. to come into active operation or use 2. to begin business 3. to make pretensions <has never set up to be a wise man — Thomas Rogers> 4. to become firm or consolidated

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you set something up, you create or arrange it. The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims... Tell us when and why you started your business and how you went about setting it up. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P • setting up The British government announced the setting up of a special fund. N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n 2. If you set up a temporary structure, you place it or build it somewhere. They took to the streets, setting up roadblocks of burning tyres... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 3. If you set up a device or piece of machinery, you do the things that are necessary for it to be able to start working. I set up the computer so that they could work from home. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 4. If you set up somewhere or set yourself up somewhere, you establish yourself in a new business or new area. ...the mayor's scheme offers incentives to firms setting up in lower Manhattan... He worked as a dance instructor in London before setting himself up in Bucharest... Grandfather set them up in a liquor business. PHRASAL VERB: V P prep/adv, V pron-refl P prep/adv, V n P prep/adv 5. If you set up home or set up shop, you buy a house or business of your own and start living or working there. They married, and set up home in Ramsgate. PHRASAL VERB: V P n 6. If something sets up something such as a process, it creates it or causes it to begin. The secondary current sets up a magnetic field inside the tube... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 7. If you are set up by someone, they make it seem that you have done something wrong when you have not. (INFORMAL) He claimed he had been set up after drugs were discovered at his home... Maybe Angelo tried to set us up. PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P, V n P 8. see also set-up

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. (Active.) 1. Erect, raise, elevate. 2. Exalt, raise, put in power. 3. Institute, establish, found. 4. Put in type. 5. Raise. 6. Advance, propose. 7. Fix, establish. II. (Neuter.) 1. Begin business. 2. Profess, make pretensions to.

Moby Thesaurus

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