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動詞

set up (third-person singular simple present sets up, present participle setting up, simple past and past participle set up)

1. (transitive) To make ready for use.

   We set up the sprinkler.

2. (transitive) To arrange logically.

   Set up my CD collection.

3. (transitive) To cause to happen.

   Even a minor change can set up new bugs.

   • 2018 July 3, Phil McNulty, “Colombia 1 - 1 England”, in BBC Sport‎:

     England's famous victory sets up a meeting with Sweden in Samara on Saturday

4. (transitive) To trap or ensnare.

   I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.

5. (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

   The election was set up!

6. (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.

   Used with an implied object obvious from context.

   Give me a minute — I'm still setting up.

   The band is setting up.

7. (intransitive) To gel or harden.

   Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.

8. (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.

   The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.

9. (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.

   Winning the lottery has set them up for life.

   A good breakfast really sets you up for the day.

   • 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     If you ever need anything, come back here, and I'll set you up!

10. (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.

    After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.

    She set herself up as an interior designer.

11. (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.

    Synonyms: frame, frame up, put up

    They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.

12. (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 286–7:

      M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.

13. (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
14. (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
    • 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport‎:

      Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.

    • 2024 May 6, Sid Lowe, “Portu’s brilliant burst seals Girona’s top-four fairytale in the perfect way”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

      On 71.05, Portu brilliantly set up Yangel Herrera, only for Marc-André ter Stegen to make a sensational save.

15. (dated, intransitive) To begin business or a scheme of life.

    to set up in trade; to set up for oneself

16. To profess openly; to make pretensions.
    • 1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience

      those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part

17. (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
    • 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian‎:

      With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.

18. (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
    • 1950, Jack Dempsey, chapter 23, in Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching and Aggressive Defense:

      When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.

    • 1997 September 24, Joe Duffy, “TRIBUTES TO THE MAN AND THE BOXER”, in Hartford Courant‎:

      Writer Danny Wamboldt of Ring magazine said, "Only Willie knew how to set up his opponents masterfully and then move in." Wamboldt, a former New England bantamweight champion and current national president of the Veteran Boxers Association, said that one of Pep's opponents said of his dazzling speed: "It was the first time he had been surrounded by one man."

19. To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 27:

      Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]

20. (obsolete, printing) Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)

同意語

• (to ready): install, put in, ready, prepare, assemble, configure

派生語

形容詞

set up (comparative more set up, superlative most set up)

1. In a position to function; ready.

   Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!

同意語

• (In a position to function) prepared, ready

関連する語

• setup (noun)

アナグラム

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, spute, stupe, upset

発音

形容詞

set-up (comparative more set-up, superlative most set-up)

1. (chiefly British) Alternative form of setup.
   • 1990, John Bessant, Richard Lamming, Macmillan Dictionary of Production Technology and Management‎, Palgrave Macmillan UK, page 153:

     set-up time. The time taken to SET UP a machine or to change it from making one product to another.

名詞

set-up (plural set-ups)

1. (chiefly British) Alternative form of setup.
   • 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:

     Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation.

   • 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:

     Stevenage's first-half performance forced a change of formation from Newcastle at the break, as they brought on Nile Ranger for Leon Best and switched to a 4-2-3-1 set-up.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].

アナグラム

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, spute, stupe, upset

語源

Deverbal from set up.

発音

• enPR: sĕt'ŭp', IPA: /ˈsɛtʌp/

名詞

setup (plural setups)

1. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

   The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.

2. The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.

   The classroom setup was simple and efficient.

   • 1993, Billboard, volume 105, number 21, page 106:

     Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup.

   • 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer‎:

     For some stretches, Berhalter’s usual 4-3-3 setup played more as a 4-4-2, with Tim Weah pushing up alongside Wright and McKennie moving to the right side.

3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.

   Trust me, that was a setup!

4. (computing) An installer.
   • 1995 August 28, InfoWorld, page 80:

     You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […]

5. (operations) The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.

   Synonyms: make-ready, makeready (used in some trades)

   A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.

6. (hydrology) 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.

   There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.

7. (boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.

   The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.

同意語

• (equipment): apparatus, loadout
• (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged): configuration, layout
• (situation orchestrated to frame someone): frameup, stitch-up

派生語

関連する語

• set up, the adjective and verb

動詞

setup

1. Misspelling of set up.

アナグラム

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, spute, stupe, upset