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Set up

verb

1.

Set up or found. Synonyms: establish, found, launch.

2.

Create by putting components or members together. Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, tack, tack together. "He tacked together some verses" , "They set up a committee"

3.

Construct, build, or erect. Synonyms: erect, put up, raise, rear.

4.

Get ready for a particular purpose or event. Synonyms: lay out, set. "Set the table" , "Lay out the tools for the surgery"

5.

Put into a proper or systematic order. Synonym: arrange.

6.

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

7.

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap. Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, frame. "The innocent man was framed by the police"

8.

Produce. Synonyms: effect, effectuate.

9.

Set up for use. Synonyms: instal, install, put in. "We put in a new sink"

10.

Place. Synonyms: establish, instal, install.

11.

Arrange the outcome of by means of deceit. Synonym: rig.

12.

Erect and fasten. Synonym: pitch.

13.

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events. Synonyms: arrange, order, put. "Set up one's life" , "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

14.

Equip with sails or masts. Synonyms: rig, set.

15.

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc. Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set. "Prepare for war" , "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

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"Set up" Quotes from Famous Books

... unpopular vote, but I am not frightened by that. I have been accustomed to give such votes all my life almost, but I believe they have been given in the cause of human liberty and right and in the way of the advancing intelligence of our age; and whenever the landmark has been set up the community have marched up to it. I think I am advocating now the same kind of a principle, and I have no doubt that sooner or later it will become a fixed fact, and the community will think it just as absurd to exclude females ...

— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

... grizzly cub as ever stepped. In a grizzly-gray full moon of fluffy hair, two big black eyes sparkled like jet beads, behind a pudgy little nose, absurdly short for a bear. Excepting for his high shoulders, he was little more than a big bale of gray fur set up on four posts of the same material. But his claws were formidable, and he had the true ...

— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... life, and in the professions, when a standard or ideal is tacitly set up, to which every member is expected to conform on pain of having himself talked about, and wise heads shaken over him, the quick feelings of the vagabond are not frequently found. Yet, thanks to Nature, ...

— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith

... was much less revolutionary than they. By nature and education he was conservative; he put The Lay of the Last Minstrel into the mouth of a rude harper of the North in order to shield himself from the charge of "attempting to set up a new school in poetry," and he never throughout his life violated the conventions, literary or social, if he could possibly avoid doing so. This bias toward conservatism and conventionality shows itself particularly ...

— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... baby boy set up a faint cry and this was immediately answered by a similar cry from the other baby. Then arose a grand chorus which left no doubt of the facts that the babies were alive and that each possessed a good pair of lungs and full knowledge ...

— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer

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