setup

Meaning

Noun

1. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
2. The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
4. An installer.
5. The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
6. The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
7. A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.

Verb

Misspelling of set up.

Synonyms

arrangement

installation

organization

system

frame-up

apparatus

construction

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cozenage

deception

erect

form

hardware

hoax

indirection

institute

instrumentation

ordering

ordination

preparation

provision

put-on

reserve

rig

rip-off

scam

set

sham

snow job

testing

trick

take-in

stage setting

organon

swiz

adjustment

vertex processing

arrangements

assignment

cheat

cheating

con

configuration

Translations

Einrichtung

kurmak

appareil

configuração

duruş

vaziyet

ajuste

système

aparato

Aufbau

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arreglo

estrutura

Einstellung

Gründung

dispositiu

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛtʌp/

Etymology

Deverbal from set up.