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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etcplay

Example:

I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill

Synonyms:

fix; gear up; prepare; ready; set; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

brace; poise (prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult)

crop; cultivate; work (prepare for crops)

prime (insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing)

summerise; summerize (prepare for summer)

winterise; winterize (prepare for winter)

lay out; set; set up (get ready for a particular purpose or event)

mount (fix onto a backing, setting, or support)

fix (kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study)

precondition (put into the required condition beforehand)

cram (prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam)

provide (take measures in preparation for)

socialise; socialize (prepare for social life)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get ready for a particular purpose or eventplay

Example:

lay out the tools for the surgery

Synonyms:

lay out; set; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

fix; gear up; prepare; ready; set; set up (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Equip with sails or mastsplay

Example:

rig a ship

Synonyms:

rig; set; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal eventsplay

Example:

I put these memories with those of bygone times

Synonyms:

arrange; order; put; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (arrange or represent events so that they co-occur)

phrase (divide, combine, or mark into phrases)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Put into a proper or systematic orderplay

Example:

arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order

Synonyms:

arrange; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

concord (arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance)

cascade (arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible)

settle (arrange or fix in the desired order)

pyramid (arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid)

corral (arrange wagons so that they form a corral)

catenate; catenulate (arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores)

decorate; dress (provide with decoration)

array; lay out; range; set out (lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line)

bundle; compact; pack; wad (compress into a wad)

heap; pile; stack (arrange in stacks)

distribute; stagger (to arrange in a systematic order)

drape (arrange in a particular way)

drape (place casually)

set (fix in a border)

gradate (arrange according to grades)

line up (form a line)

regularise; regularize (make regular or more regular)

order (place in a certain order)

order (bring order to or into)

straighten (make straight or straighter)

rearrange (put into a new order or arrangement)

serialise; serialize (arrange serially)

alphabetise; alphabetize (arrange in alphabetical order)

coordinate; organise; organize (bring order and organization to)

stratify (form layers or strata)

draw; string; thread (thread on or as if on a string)

marshal (arrange in logical order)

string (stretch out or arrange like a string)

spread out; string out (set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series)

plume; preen (clean with one's bill)

stack (arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances)

chain (connect or arrange into a chain by linking)

geminate; pair (arrange in pairs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

They set up the bags on the table

The men set up the bookshelves


Sense 6

Meaning:

Erect and fastenplay

Example:

pitch a tent

Synonyms:

pitch; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

erect; rear (cause to rise up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

camp; camp down (establish or set up a camp)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Set up for useplay

Example:

We put in a new sink

Synonyms:

instal; install; put in; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

post; put up (place so as to be noticed)

reinstall (install again)

retrofit (fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They want to set up the doors


Sense 8

Meaning:

Placeplay

Example:

Her manager had set her up at the Ritz

Synonyms:

establish; instal; install; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 9

Meaning:

Produceplay

Example:

The scientists set up a shock wave

Synonyms:

effect; effectuate; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)

Cause:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

accomplish; action; carry out; carry through; execute; fulfil; fulfill (put in effect)

draw; get (earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher)

precipitate (bring about abruptly)

hasten; induce; rush; stimulate (cause to occur rapidly)

serve (contribute or conduce to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 10

Meaning:

Create by putting components or members togetherplay

Example:

They set up a committee

Synonyms:

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set up"):

comfit; confect; confection (make into a confection)

confuse; jumble; mix up (assemble without order or sense)

reassemble (assemble once again, after taking something apart)

configure (set up for a particular purpose)

compound (create by mixing or combining)

rig up (erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 11

Meaning:

Construct, build, or erectplay

Example:

Raise a barn

Synonyms:

erect; put up; raise; rear; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Domain category:

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 12

Meaning:

Begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.play

Example:

set up an election

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

devise; get up; machinate; organise; organize; prepare (arrange by systematic planning and united effort)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 13

Meaning:

Set up or foundplay

Example:

She set up a literacy program

Synonyms:

establish; found; launch; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

open; open up (start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 14

Meaning:

Arrange the outcome of by means of deceitplay

Example:

rig an election

Synonyms:

rig; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 15

Meaning:

Take or catch as if in a snare or trapplay

Example:

The innocent man was framed by the police

Synonyms:

ensnare; entrap; frame; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "set up" is one way to...):

cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to set up the prisoners


Derivation:

setup (an act that incriminates someone on a false charge)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A program set up to establish cooperative agreements for Clinical Trials of Cancer Therapy with Biological Response Modifiers (CATBRMs) and to develop novel approaches for such therapy.

(Biological Response Modifiers Program, NCI Thesaurus)

I set up my sail, the wind being fair, with a design to reach the nearest of those islands, which I made a shift to do, in about three hours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

An initiative set up to find signs of intelligent life in the universe has detected a series of mysterious radio signals from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set up housekeeping, but before you go there, take a closer look at its star.

(Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star, National Science Foundation )

Messner set up his light sheet-iron stove and starred a fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But he set up no monopoly of the general attention, or the conversation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Presently Jo said cheerfully, for she didn't want the coming home to be a sad one, I can't make it true that you children are really married and going to set up housekeeping.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We were just as happy as the day was long when we set up house together, and in all Liverpool there was no better woman than my Mary.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found that they had set up housekeeping together at this place on the line that she had to pass for the station.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)




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