English to English verb Example:
• She set up a literacy program
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create by putting components or members together | Example:
• She pieced a quilt • He tacked together some verses • They set up a committee
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construct, build, or erect | Example:
• Raise a barn
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get ready for a particular purpose or event | Example:
• set up an experiment • set the table • lay out the tools for the surgery
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put into a proper or systematic order | Example:
• arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
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begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc. | Example:
• set up an election
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take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Example:
• I was set up! • The innocent man was framed by the police
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• The scientists set up a shock wave
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• install the washer and dryer • We put in a new sink
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• Her manager had set her up at the Ritz
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arrange the outcome of by means of deceit | Example:
• rig an election
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• pitch a tent
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arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Example:
• arrange my schedule • set up one's life • I put these memories with those of bygone times
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equip with sails or masts | Example:
• rig a ship
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make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Example:
• Get the children ready for school! • prepare for war • I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
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