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Definition: Set Up |
Set UpAdjective1. Well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up". Verb1. Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program". 2. Make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt". 3. Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn". 4. Get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery". 5. Put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the flowers in the vase". 6. Begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election". 7. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police". 8. Cause to happen or occur; "The scientists set up a shockwave". 9. Set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink". 10. : place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz". 11. : arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; of elections. 12. : erect and fasten; "pitch a tent". 13. : arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times". 14. : equip with sails, masts, etc.; of ships. 15. : make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mechanical Engineering | To fix a tool or a workpiece with any type of clamping device. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Many skate magazines refer to the entire board of a famous skater as his "set up". Definition: All aspects of the skate board, including the deck, truck and wheels. Context: One's set up is a matter of pride. When two skaters meet eachother for the first time they will often ask what his/her set up is. This is similar to explaining all of the improvements one has made to his/her car or house. Social Source: Skaters. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonyms: Set UpSynonyms: arrange (v), assemble (v), bring about (v), effect (v), effectuate (v), ensnare (v), entrap (v), erect (v), establish (v), found (v), frame (v), gear up (v), instal (v), install (v), launch (v), lay out (v), order (v), piece (v), pitch (v), prepare (v), put (v), put in (v), put together (v), put up (v), raise (v), ready (v), rear (v), rig (v), set (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: set-to (mechanical engineering). |
| Antonyms: abolish (v), disarrange (v), disassemble (v), level (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance |
Beginning | Usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative; head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the foundations; (prepare); found; (cause); set up, set on foot, agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train; broach; open up, open the door to. |
Cause | Verb: be the cause; n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, lay the foundation of; lie at the root of. |
Elevation | Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal. |
Production | Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete). |
Prosperity | Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge. |
Restoration | Make whole, redintegrate; recoup; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order; (arrange); refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce. |
Strength | Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore). |
Success | Adjective: succeeding; Verb: successful; prosperous; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten; (see beat; Verb:); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing. |
Undertaking | Take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to, set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin; broach, one's (originate); put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel. |
Verticality | Render vertical; Adjective: set up, stick up, raise up, erect, rear, raise on its legs. |
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Screenplays | You mean you got the Galactic Trig to set up an 800 light year transporter beam just because you changed your mind (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) Take Tosh and four other men and set up a field of fire (The Wild Geese; writing credit: Daniel Carney; Reginald Rose) Should already be set up by the time we get there (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley) It is said that if you move a single pebble on the beach, you set up a different pattern, and everything in the world is changed (The Outer Limits; writing credit: Harlan Ellison) Now, most guys will hit uh, 1-2-3 and then go to 7 and set up camp (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | And set up shop at the top of four seasons (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) No guts set up for sit ups flip up watch us rip up. (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) Set up an iv of sanity (Lunatic To Love; performing artist: The Residents) | |
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A dinner is set up on black, gold-rimmed dishes on a black tabletop. There is a mug, a bowl of cut strawberries, and a plate full of green beans, small potatoes and roast beef. A dark multicolored napkin with gold thread is curved around the plate. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | A breakfast is set up on a blue and white striped tablecloth, including: a yellow bowl of cereal with raspberries, a glass of orange juice and a glass mug of tea. Also on the table are a brightly colored napkin and silverware in the foreground and a folded newspaper in the background. A second slide shows the same objects from a different angle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
![]() | Bamberg transit set up Astro party of E. J. Brown Part of World Longitude Campaign. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Setup for calibrating microwave navigation instruments Master unit set up across sound Calibration crew from NOAA Ship WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Photographer getting ready to set up for shot of Mount Erebus across sea ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Laboratory set up for water sampling studies on the MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | A rest area set up with snacks for the volunteers. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Figure 14. Meyer bottle, invented by Heinrich Adolph Meyer, of the Commission of Kiel, and built by Carl Seeman. A and B are deep water set up; A descending , B at the bottom; C shallow-water setup descending, D ascending. These bottles were used during the POMMERANIA expedition in the North Sea in 1872 and in 1874 during the GAZELLE circumnavigation of the Earth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 15. Meyer bottle, invented by Heinrich Adolph Meyer, of the Commission of Kiel, and built by Ludwig Steger. A and B are deep water set up; A descending, B at the bottom; C shallow-water setup descending, D ascending. These bottles were used during the POMMERANIA expedition in the North Sea in 1872 and in 1874 during the GAZELLE circumnavigation of the Earth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Services personnel set up in the desert. |
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| Drumming; drum; beating; methodical; analytical; businesslike; careful; deliberate; disciplined; exact; fixed; framed; methodic; methodized; meticulous; neat; ordered; orderly; planned; precise; regular; scrupulous; set up; structured; systematic; tidy; t. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. |
Milton Friedman | The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. |
President Lyndon B. Johnson | We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. |
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John Locke | 1690 | First, That there are no instances to be found in story, of a company of men independent, and equal one amongst another, that met together, and in this way began and set up a government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Each Government will defray the expenses of the Clearing Office set up in its territory, including the salaries of the staff. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Courts and magistrates may be set up but they cannot function without sheriffs and constables. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | Somewhere not too far from here, toward the middle of the island, there may have been heaven on earth, but hell had certainly set up business on its porch |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The scaffold, indeed, when it is prepared and set up, has the effect of a hallucination |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The cotton camps set up. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | 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 |
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Health | If you miss a shot, call your doctor or clinic right away to set up a new appointment. (references) | |
The NIH has set up an excellent guidance Web site that addresses these and other issues. (references) | ||
Rodent spring traps may be set up in households or dwellings where rodent infestations are a concern. (references) | ||
Business | BKW and ATEL have set up marketing companies in Italy. (references) | |
Some OEMs set up only repair and service centers in Singapore. (references) | ||
Some foreign manufacturers have even set up an Argentine branch. (references) | ||
Children | India | The program aimed to set up an additional 600 schools for the remaining 29,000 children by year's end. (references) |
Central African Republic | A juvenile court was set up in 1998 and provided counseling services to parents and juveniles during the year. (references) | |
India | The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has set up a 24-hour "child help line" phone-in service for children in distress in nine cities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kuwait | Security forces in Kuwait City occasionally set up checkpoints at which they may detain individuals. (references) |
Malaysia | Police set up roadblocks and monitored bus stations, train stations, and airports to turn back suspected opposition supporters. (references) | |
China | Other regulations were set up punishing persons who store, process, or retrieve information deemed to be "state secrets" from international computer networks. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | Several ministries have also set up websites. (references) |
Afghanistan | Burhanuddin Rabbani, was to be set up for 4 months. (references) | |
Bahrain | Industries must be set up in identified industrial areas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Netherlands | The Justice Minister set up the Kibbelaar committee early in the year. (references) |
India | At year's end, 500 of these courts had been set up. There were no political detainees reported during the year. (references) | |
China | Beijing and other city police departments have set up hotlines for citizens to complain about police misconduct. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Panama | Laws protect intellectual property rights of indigenous artwork and set up regulations for artisan fairs. (references) |
Canada | During 1999 the Government focused on negotiations over a commission to set up a political entity (Nunavik) for Quebec's Inuit. (references) | |
Australia | The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, an informal NGO of Aboriginals that has set up a small structure on public land opposite the Old Parliament building, seeks to publicize aboriginal grievances. (references) | |
Minorities | Netherlands | In 2000 the Chief Public Prosecutor set up the National Expertise Center on Discrimination to improve the prosecution's handling of discrimination cases. (references) |
Netherlands | A central government organization was set up in 1999 to fight racial discrimination and to collect nationwide statistics on incidents of discrimination, but it has yet to work out a uniform system. (references) | |
United Kingdom | When violence broke out, the Government, in accordance with the Race Relations Act, set up independent boards of inquiry to determine the causes of the violence and examine its effects on multiethnic communities. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHINA | FIEs may set up foreign currency deposits for trade and remittances. (references) |
Sudan | The tribunals were not set up nor were administrative procedures promulgated by year's end. (references) | |
TAIWAN | Legal: Foreign lawyers may not operate legal practices in Taiwan but may set up consulting firms or work with local law firms. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkmenistan | Special mailboxes were set up throughout the country and, in the first year, approximately 140,000 letters were received by the President. (references) |
Uganda | The CRC was set up to examine the constitutional provisions relating to sovereignty, political systems, democracy, and good governance; however, it did not receive sufficient funding to carry out its mandate. (references) | |
Trade | Eritrea | Banks were allowed to set up foreign currency accounts and make foreign currency loans. (references) |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | The new guidelines will permit foreign schools to be set up based on pre-approved curriculum. (references) |
Taiwan | A commercial network called HiNet has been set up by Chunghwa Telecom to provide Taiwan users high-speed access to the Internet. (references) | |
Argentina | The "Gold Key Service" offered by the Commercial service is an excellent way of finding the right contacts, and having a schedule of meetings set up. (references) | |
Women | Taiwan | The law requires all city and county governments to set up domestic violence prevention and control centers. (references) |
Taiwan | Most city and county administrations have set up committees to deal with complaints of sexual discrimination in the workplace. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | The Congress of Women has set up legal clinics for women throughout the country to help counsel women on legal issues and women's' problems. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Peru | No abuses were reported when the police removed roadblocks set up by protesters. (references) |
Haiti | Workers have access to labor courts (Tribunaux de Travail) set up to resolve common labor-management disputes. (references) | |
Indonesia | Unions other than the SPSI have alleged difficulties in getting companies to set up a checkoff system for their members. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
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Dick Van Dyke | The set was kind of set up like a stage set, and they wanted to make it look like a play, but kind of get inside of it, so there were lots of shots. |
Phyllis Diller | Oh, please. Shaggy thing. I've seen Halloween outfits that cost more. So they wanted to do it again, and I said let me set up one. So I was nude on a bear rug like babies. |
William Shatner | Roddenberry set up a concept and that was critical. A lot of people after that have run with the ball. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Sentiments and propositions which they had declared could not justly be imputed to the Government or people of the United States are set up as obstacles to the performance of an act of conceded justice to that Government and people. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. |
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Expressions using "set up": be set up ♦ be well set up ♦ set up a business ♦ set up a camp ♦ set up a howl ♦ set up a shop ♦ set up a shout ♦ set up a store ♦ set up a term to ♦ set up an inquiry ♦ set up as ♦ set up as a model ♦ set up camp ♦ set up for ♦ set up for doctor ♦ set up home ♦ set up house ♦ set up in business ♦ set up in type ♦ set up one's bristles ♦ set up shop ♦ set up the defense ♦ set up type ♦ To set or To set up ♦ To set up ♦ to set up one's rest ♦ to set up one's staff ♦ To set up the rigging. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "set up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | strukturë (conformation, construction, contexture, fabric, frame, framework, grain, make up, pattern, set, skeleton, state, structure), themeloj (constitute, establish, float, found, institute, lay the foundations of, open, plant, repose), organizim (organization, setting up), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), ndërtoj (build, carve, construct, engineer, erect, make, put up, raise, rear, throw up, upbuild, work up), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, zippy), filloj (begin, come, commence, develop, embark, enter, fall into, fall on, fall to, get, get down, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, set about, set in, set to, start, strike up). (various references) | |
Arabic | قم, شفى (cure, fix, get better, get over, get well, heal, mend, pull round, recover, recuperate, restore, skin), ركب (assemble, compact, compose, construct, fabricate, frame, mount, prepare, put together, ride, rig up, set, straddle, superimpose), رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), أطلق صيحة (send, shriek), أسس (establish, found, institute, organize, plant, predicate, promote, set, work up), أقام معسكرا (pitch), دعا (allege, beckon, bid, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, invite, name, plead, profess, purport, recall, summon, term, warn), زود (accommodate, assort, button, cap, chock, cover, eke out, equip, fit, fit out, furnish, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, store, supply, tool up), فتح متجرا, نصب (constitute, install, nominate, put up, roguery, statue, swindle), نصب خيمة (pitch), نصب فخا (snare), مؤسس (based, established, founded, founder, instituted, patriarch, promoter), مؤلف (author, compiler, composer, established, formed, penman, writer, written), كرس (consecrate, dedicate, devote, hallow, sanctify), فتح تحقيقا, خيم (reign, tent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | помагам да започне, издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise), започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, settle in, start off, start up, take off, tee off, teethe, trigger), лесна работа (cinch, picnic, pie, pipe, pushover, snap), предлагам (bid, hold forth, offer, present, proffer, propone, propose, put forth, suggest, think of, vote), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), правя да се възгордее, причинявам (bring, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, do, effect, engender, generate, induce, inflict, make, procure, produce, putrefy, set off, throw down, work, work up), зарадвам (gladden, overjoy), поставям (affix, apply, deposit, do, laid, lay, pass, pitch, place, pose, posit, position, produce, put, put on, put up, set, shrink on, site, situate, stage), мизансцен (setting, stage-setting), положение (aspect, capacity, circumstance, fettle, footing, juncture, lay, place, placement, plight, point, position, posture, provision, set, siege, situation, standing, state, train, way), побит (battered, driven, erect), плащам (come across, compensate, cough up, defray, give, kick in, meet, part, pay, plank down, remunerate, settle up, shell out, stand sam), план (blueprint, conception, dart, diagram, draft, draught, game, idea, layout, map, plan, plat, plot, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, schema, scheme, skeleton, sketch, view), изработвам (dress, elaborate, frame, make, produce, spin, turn out, work), излагам (bring on reproach, display, enunciate, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay, lay out, propound, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, show, show off, sink, state, subject, ventilate), излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out), изправена стойка, прибори за едно лице, основавам (base, bottom, charter, establish, found, ground, institute, launch, organize, plant, promote, start), строеж (conformation, construction, design, formation, grain, make up, making, mechanism, pattern, structure, texture, turn), устройство (appliance, composition, conformation, design, fabric, frame, grain, hang, mechanism, organization, pattern, rig, set, structure), снабдявам (accommodate, arm, cater, feed, find, fit out, fit up, fuel, furnish, issue, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, stock, suit, supply), ситуация, черпя (shout, stand, stand sam, treat), кадър (cadre, frame, shot, still, take), въвеждам (bring, bring in, establish, herald, import, initiate, institute, introduce, naturalize, pioneer, prelude, premise, prologue, put in, show, take in, usher in), закалявам (anneal, case harden, draw, harden, quench, season, steel, toughen), вдъхновявам (animate, inbreathe, turn on), структура (architecture, conformation, construction, contexture, fabric, formation, frame, framework, ordonnance, pattern, structure), организация (body, institute, organization, shebang), ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, nerve, pull round, reanimate, refresh, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift), опъвам (bend, draw, pull, strain, stretch, string up, tauten, tighten), настанявам (accommodate, collocate, encamp, establish, fix up, induct, instal, install, place, put up, set, settle, station), нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, settle, sort out, tell, trim), нагласена лесна победа, набирам (compose, dial, gather, maturate, muster, muster up, pucker, quill, raise, set, shirr), надавам (loose, raise, send forth), възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, engage, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, stimulate, sting, stir, thrill, turn on). (various references) | |
Chinese | 開辦 (open, start), 立 (to stand), 樹立 (establish), 成立 (establish), 安設 (install), 建立 (build, construction, creation, establish). (various references) | |
Czech | založit (base, begin, constitute, establish, file, float, found, ground, institute, launch, mislay, plant, start, start up, wedge), vztyèit (hoist, hold up, raise), vystavit (display, exhibit, expose, issue, lay out, subject, subject to), držení tìla (bearing, carriage, deportment, poise, port, pose). (various references) | |
Danish | opspænde (clamp, grip, mount, set). (various references) | |
Dutch | spannen (harness, strech, wind up). (various references) | |
Finnish | solmia (bind, establish, tie), pystyttää (erect, pitch, put up), perustaa (base, erect, establish, found, start), kiinnittää (affix, attach, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure), aloittaa (begin, begin start, commence, initiate, lead, lead off, start). (various references) | |
French | serrer (set, to seize), se mettre (set to), se, monter (set, to set), dressa, dressâmes, dressé, dressés, dressent, dresser (set right), fonder, implanter, approvisionner (set), instaurer, truquer, munir, piéger (set), prétendre, rétablir (set), remonter, installer (set). (various references) | |
German | vorbereiten (be boiling, groom, Mount, prearrange, prepaid, prepair, prepare, prime, priming), aufbauen (assemble, base, be based, build, build on, build up, construct, establish, fix up, get up, lay out, organize, promote, put together, put up, rebuild, structure, to build (up), to build up, to synthesize). (various references) | |
Greek | στήνω (erect, plant, rig). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליסו" (appoint, establish, found, institute), לקומם (erect, raise against, re construct, re establish, restore, rouse), לזקוף (attribute, charge an account, erect, lift, raise up), ל"קים (erect, establish, put up, raise, start), ל"רכיב (assemble, build, combine, compose, compound, fabricate, place on, put together), ל"צי' (evince, hang out, introduce, present, set out, show, station, trot out), ל"ציב (dispose, place, post, rear, set, spot, stand), לצי" (arm, equip, fit out, fit up, furnish, outfit, provide, stock, supply), ל טוע (establish, implant, insert, plant, shoot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tagozódás (dispersion), lépcsõzés, lépcsõ (aircraft step, doorstep, echelon, pair of stairs, serial, staircase, step), jóvágású (handsome), feltesz (bet, laid, pose, put up, suppose, to assume, to lay, to postulate, to put up, to suppose, to surmise), felszerel (arm, equip, fit out, fit up, gang, instal, install, Mount, outfit, rig up, stock up, to accoutre, to emboss, to equip, to fit out, to fit up, to furnish, to gang, to install, to issue, to line up, to refit, to remount, to rig out, to rig up, to stock, to store, to tool up), felrak (put on, to apply, to lay on, to put on, to set up), felépítés (build, build up, buildup, build-up, conformation, erection, fabrication, set-up, structure, synthesis, upbuilding), felállítás (activate, erection, installation, line-up, mounting, pitching, setting, setting up, siting). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mencabangkan (set up a branch). (various references) | |
Italian | fondare (base, base oneself, build, erect, establish, found, ground, ground floor). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仕掛け (challenge, commencement, device, gadget, half finished, mechanism, scale, trick), 仕掛 (challenge, commencement, device, gadget, half finished, mechanism, scale, trick). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しかけ (challenge, commencement, device, gadget, half finished, mechanism, scale, trick). (various references) | |
Manx | soiaghey seose, soiaghey (beset, determine, fix, implant, incursion, installation, let, letting, mounting, pitch, place, plant, posture, repose, seat, set, setting, settle, situate, situation, station, synchronize), cur ayns clou. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etsay upay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | montar (back, bestride, link, pitch, reach, ride, run up, set, trim). (various references) | |
Romanian | schemã (chart, diagram, draft, lay out, network, outline, plan, schedule, schema, scheme, sketch), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), organizare internã, monta (accommodate, adapt, adjust, assemble, attune, erect, fit, fit up, fix, hang, install, key up, match, Mount, place, put up, rig up, set, tune), meci de box aranjat dinainte, culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, gather, glean, mow, pick, pick up, pluck, reap, take up), cuib de hoţi (haunt, nest of robbers, Rookery), amplasare (lay out, location), aşeza un obiect la vedere, înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, put up, raise, uplift), ţinutã dreaptã (erectness). (various references) | |
Russian | устанавливать (ascertain, ascertained, collocate, determine, emplace, establish, fix, install, posit, put, puts, set, slated, slates). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zakazati sastanak, zakazati (call, schedule), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, skunk, stick, string along, take in, trick, victimize), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, situate, string), osnovati (build, found, start), namešten (furnished, put up, reduced). (various references) | |
Spanish | colocar (adjust, bestow, collocate, dispose, embattle, employ, enrol, go in, install, invest, lay, lay down, locate, Lodge, marry off, perch, pitch, place, plant, play, posit, position, put, put down, put up, seat, set, settle, situate, stand, station, Stow, tune). (various references) | |
Swedish | sätta upp (draft, draw, instal, install, perk, pin, pitch, put up, stage), planera (arrange, contemplate, design, fix, intend, lay out, level, meditate, phase, plan, plat, schedule, scheme), anordna (arrange, hold, organize), etablera sig (establish oneself, settle down), fastspänning (chuck, clamp, clamp in a chuck, grip, grip in a chuck, hold in a chuck, mount, set, strapping), fixa (do in, fix up, nobble), framkalla (arouse, bring about, call forth, call up, cause, develop, elicit, engender, evoke, excite, fetch, induce, invite, prompt, provoke, recall), göra frisk igen, grunda (base, erect, establish, float, form, found, ground, plant, predicate, prime, put), anlägga (assume, build, construct, found, lay, lay down), inrätta (arrange, constitute, create, establish, form, found, institute, settle down), välväxt (shapely, upstanding), resa (crest, go, go away, go to, journey, leave, passage, peregrination, raise, rear, ride, tour, travel, trip, voyage), uppföra (act, behave, build, do, enact, enter, erect, perform, put down, raise), upprätta (create, erect, establish, execute, found, institute, make, raise, rehabilitate, restore, retrive), uppspänning (clamp, grip, mount, set), utstöta (ejaculate, emit, heave, let out, utter, vent), välbyggd (husky, well-built), införa (adopt, establish, implement, inject, insert, inset, introduce, plant, put in). (various references) | |
Turkish | saldırmak (aggress, assail, assault, attack, charge, come at, come down on, come for, come on, come upon, descend, fall on, fly at, fly at smb., fly out at smb., go at, hit at, invade, jump on, lam into, lash into, lash out, lay about, let smb. have it, level off, level out, light into, lunge, make a dash, make a dead-set at, offend, pounce, press home, ride atilt at smb., round on, run at, run atilt at smb., rush, sally out, storm, sweep down on, swoop, swoop down, swoop on, thrust, turn on, turn upon, wade in, wade into, walk into), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), ileri sürmek (adduce, advance, affirm, allege, assert, bring about, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, enunciate, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, propound, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, throw out, urge, weigh in with), işe girmek, içki bardağı, geçindirmek (feed, find, keep up, maintain, subsist, support, sustain), fiziksel yapı, üzerine çıkarmak, durum (attitude, ball game, case, circumstance, condition, conditions, conjuncture, context, estate, event, fact, fettle, footing, instance, lay, lie, occasion, pass, plight, position, posture, repair, score, set, shape, showing, situation, situs, stance, stand, state, state of affairs, status, trim, way), kamerayı çekime hazırlama, danışıklı dövüş (frame up, put-up job), buz ve soda, şikeli maç, aday göstermek (present, run), açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, clear up, declare, declassify, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, elucidate, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, get across, give smth. publicity, impart, intimate, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, show, show forth, spit out, state, unclose, unfold, unveil), enayi (chump, dupe, fall guy, fool, foolish, goat, gudgeon, gull, mug, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, sucker), organizasyon (organization), yapı (architecture, being, blood, build, building, chemistry, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, contexture, corpus, disposition, edifice, erection, fabric, fiber, fibre, form, frame, framework, habit, habit of body, make, make up, making, Mold, mould, nature, organism, presence, quality, strain, structural, structure, system, texture, works), yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), vaziyet (ball game, factual situation, pass, posture, set, stance, state of affairs), tuzak kurmak (ambuscade, ambush, lay a plot, lay a trap for, set a snare, set a snare for smb., set a trap for, snare, trap), tasarı (bill, design, draught, plan, project, proposal, scheme), iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, heal, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, recuperate, rehabilitate, remedy, upgrade), plan (arrangement, blue print, chart, conspectus, design, idea, intention, layout, map, plan, plot, program, programme, project, proposal, proposition, scheme), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), monte etmek (assemble, install, Mount, put together), maddi yardım sağlamak, kuruluş (being set-up, body, concern, enterprise, establishment, foundation, institute, institution, organ, promotional, shop), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), kolay iş (child's play, easy job, mickey mouse, shade, simple job, sitter, snap, snip), yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow), proje (blue print, design, plan, project, projection, prospectus, scheme). (various references) | |
Turkmen | germek (put up), зasyrmak (pitch a tent, spread out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ставити (ante, place, plank, posit, position, post, produce, put, set, set out, stage, stagemanage, stand), система (chain, economy, method, scheme, system), ситуація (angle, context, situation), засновувати (base, build, charter, constitute, establish, institute, promote, start), піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, heft, hoist, levitate, lift, prong, put up, raise, raise up, rear, take up, up, upbear, uphold, uplift, waken), пропонувати (appoint, charge, hold forth, hold out, offer, proffer, propose, put, put forward, set forward, suggest, tender, volunteer), постачати (accommodate, administer, administrate, assort, feed, fit up, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide, stock, store, supply), постава (attitude, poise, port, posture, presence). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conparabimus, conparabitur, conparabo, conparabor, conparantes, conparare, conparari, conparastis, conparata, conparate, conparati, conparatus, conparaverunt, conparavi, conparavit, conparemus, conparer, conparet, conparetur, constituam, constituamus, constituantur, constituas, constituat, constitue, constituebant, constituebat, constituemus, constituendum, constituens, constituent, constituentur, constituerat, constituere, constituerem, constituerent, constitueret, constituerim, constitueris, constituerit, constituerunt, constitueruntque, constitues, constituesque, constituet, constituetur, constitui, constituimus, constituissent, constituisset, constituisti, constituistis, constituit, constituite, constituitque, constituitur, constituo, constituta, constitutae, constituti, constitutis, constitutum, constitutus, constituunt, deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit, instituere, instituerunt, instituisti, instituit, instituta, institutum, institutus, instruo, ordita, orditus, persistens, praestaturum, sisterent, state, statis, statu, statuam, statuamus, statuas, statuat, statue, statuemus, statuendam, statuens, statuent, statuentes, statuerat, statuere, statueret, statuerit, statueritis, statuerunt, statuesque, statuet, statui, statuimus, statuisset, statuisti, statuit, statuitque, statum, statuo, statura, staturae, staturam, statuta, statutis, statuto, statutum, statuunt. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Pro tou aiwnoV eqemeliwsen me en arch |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ab aeterno ordita sum et ex antiquis antequam terra fieret |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Of the euere lastende I am ordeyned; and of the olde, er the erthe shulde be maad. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. |
| Basic English |