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Building & Civil Engineering | The relatively quick change, such as takes place in Portland cement mixtures or other mortars, or in a bituminous material after its deposition in place, indicated by its hardening after cooling and exposure to atmospheric conditions, as opposed to the slower changes later occurring gradually and almost imperceptibly. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A method of removing bark and any minor buttresses by axe or saw round the base of a tree, preparatory to making the undercut. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The various operations, e. g. bark scraping, initial cutting of the face, and(re)fixing of aprons and cups, preparatory to the start of tapping. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. See:rigging b. In mining, to gather the necessary tools and complete all work preparatory to drilling. Syn:setup c. Hardening of air-setting or hydraulic-setting mortars.d. The act or process of setting a diamond bit. (references) |
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Crosswords: SETTING UP |
| English words defined with "SETTING UP": Every now and then ♦ Faldage. (references) |
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Screenplays | Camera crews are setting up, and I'm lookin' totally ripped (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Lyrics | You're setting up your (Building A Mystery; performing artist: Sarah McLachlan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Part 2: Setting Up for Bombing Operation of C-1 Autopilot (1943) | |
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![]() | Technician Setting up RCA Television Camera. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Setting up a Wild T-2 in the dunes. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Setting up a Raydist tower About half-way up Party off of wire drag vessels WAINWRIGHT and HILGARD Photograph #5 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Setting up microwave navigation instrument on lighthouse Party off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Jasper Bilby setting up 60' reconnaissance pole At Station Elbow - connecting with 98th Meridian Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Setting up a SeaBird SeaCat, temperature and conductivity sensor for deployment in the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Setting up an Aandaara current meter for deployment in the Ross Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Setting up planting sites at Barren Island for patchy and continuous planting areas. The sites were marked and designated in advance. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Lead Electronics Technician Bob Blackburn, Assistant Survey Tech Maureen Goff, and Assistant Survey Tech Scot Warrender at work setting up a GPS station atop Sawyer Island. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Airman setting up tent. |
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| Slap bass setting up a groove for a chordal guitar solo. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | But conquest is as far from setting up any government, as demolishing an house is from building a new one in the place. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. (reference) |
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Health | This DNA aggravates the already excessive stickiness of the mucus, setting up a vicious cycle of further airway obstruction, inflammation and infection. (references) | |
Business | Carriers specialize in setting up networks and maintaining connections. (references) | |
Major OEMs are setting up web-based portals for automotive parts suppliers. (references) | ||
General Motors reported interest in setting up some high-tech activities in Singapore. (references) | ||
Children | Greece | The idea of setting up satellite elementary schools near Romani camps has been set aside in favor of the policy of integration (except for preschool centers). (references) |
Pakistan | On August 18, the Government passed a law regulating madrassahs under a voluntary registration program that included the setting up of model schools, the setting of teacher training standards, and the standardization of the curricula in participating schools to include general education subjects. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | Sudarshan reportedly also encouraged Christian citizens to free themselves from the strong influence of foreign countries by setting up Indian nationalistic churches. (references) |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | SAGIA's authorization is only the first step for setting up such a partnership. (references) |
India | The setting up of various offices and distribution network is a time consuming process. (references) | |
Panama | The time period usually involved in setting up a corporation is from 15 days to two months. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zambia | The Magistrates and Judges' Association made an effort to expedite the process of court appearances in 2000 by setting up a fast-track court that could quickly hear minor, uncomplicated cases. (references) |
Bahrain | There were no reports during the year of security forces setting up checkpoints at the entrances to villages, conducting vehicle searches, and requiring proof of identity from anyone seeking to enter or exit. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | In August 2000, SNS Member of Parliament Vitazolslv Moric proposed setting up reservations for Slovak Roma who refuse to assimilate into society. (references) |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | A small number of workers in the EPZs skirted prohibitions on forming unions by setting up associations. (references) |
Moldova | For example, some local governments take an active role in encouraging investments in their territories and promoting foreign trade, lobby for establishing free economic zones and setting up business incubators and streamline business registration and supervision procedures. (references) | |
Austria | Following an initially shaky phase of the OVP/FPO government, characterized by EU sanctions against Austria and international concerns due to the controversial nature of the FPO, Austria's international relations normalized in the second half of the year 2000. In 2000 and 2001, the Austrian government also resolved Nazi era compensation issues by setting up two funds to provide compensation to former forced and slave laborers, and to address gaps and shortcomings in previous restitution programs. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | The EU's objectives in setting up a system for issuing green labels are twofold. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The BOI now actively encourages the setting up of export-oriented factories in the newly developed industrial zones. (references) | |
Taiwan | These regulations have had the effect of preventing engineering consulting companies from setting up branches in Taiwan and, for companies already here, pulling out of the market or undergoing significant management reshuffling. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | It is recommended to work with an international accounting firm when setting up in Vietnam. (references) |
Switzerland | Allowing ample lead time in setting up business appointments is also considered polite; one should not expect to "drop in" without an appointment on a business acquaintance. (references) | |
Women | Greece | To ameliorate the situation, the GSES established two regional employment offices for women in Thessaloniki and Patras in 2000. It also continued to provide vocational training programs for unemployed women and programs to reinforce entrepreneurship, subsidies to women for setting up an enterprise, information and counseling to unemployed women, and it created childcare facilities to assist unemployed women to attend training courses and look for a job. (references) |
Worker Rights | Hong Kong | The eight Hong Kong men arrested for setting up a local "shell company" to facilitate the operations were convicted and sentenced to jail terms ranging from 2 to 61/2 years. (references) |
Switzerland | The Federal Council charged the Federal Department of Justice and Police with setting up an interdepartmental working group to assess whether the Penal Code required amendment, to determine what measures should be taken to better protect the victims of female trade, and to determine whether it was necessary to create additional consultation centers. (references) | |
China | Recognizing this, the Government during the year created a new State Administration for Work Safety (SAWS), which it joined with the State Administration for Coal Mine Safety Supervision (SACMSS), established in 2000. In setting up SAWS/SACMSS, the Government shifted the responsibility for work safety from the State Economic and Trade Commission, which also had business promotion responsibilities, to an agency solely dedicated to work safety. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (Pignoramus intolerabilis) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says the president won't veto legislation setting up the department if it expands government. |
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Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | In spite of this precaution, however, it comes to my knowledge that I am much censured for some supposed agency in setting up, and seeking to sustain, the new State Government of Louisiana. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Setting up the Department of Homeland Security will involve the most extensive reorganization of the federal government since Harry Truman signed the National Security Act. |
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Expression using "SETTING UP": setting up house. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SETTING UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | organizim (organization, set up), ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, flow, hoist, increase, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake). (various references) | |
Arabic | تنضيد (composing, composition, typesetting), إفتتاح (inauguration, opening, start), إنشاء (build up, copy, foundation, foundress, origination, promotion). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | монтаж (assembly, continuity, installation, montage), монтиране (assemblage, erection, mounting). (various references) | |
Czech | seřízení stroje. (various references) | |
Danish | lokalisering (establishment, localization, locating, location, settlement, siting), klargøring til harpikstapning (cupping), bosættelse (establishment, human settlement, localization, settlement, siting), afskæring af rodudløb (cornering, facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, side cutting, side notching), afbinding. (various references) | |
Dutch | vestiging (establishment), verwijderen van wortelaanlopen (cornering, facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, side cutting, side notching), maken van tapsnede (cupping), lokalisatie (localization), binden (bind, connect, join, tie, tie up), aantrekken (attract, draw, draw tighter, put on, tighten). (various references) | |
Finnish | sitoutuminen (binding, interlacing, linking, looping, turning-off), loveaminen (cornering, facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | |
French | prise (seizure), préparation du gemmage, ouverture, localisation (settlement), implantation (setting out, settlement), dressant, création, composition, égobelage. (various references) | |
German | Aufstellung (array, deployment, disposition, drawing up, erection, installation, inventory, line up, lining up, list, nomination, picking, pitching, posting, putting up, raising, selecting, setting, specification, stationing, table, tabulation), aufrichtend (cocking, erecting, ramping). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάρτιση (instruction), πήξις (coagulation), ροετοιμασία ρητίνευσης (cupping). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "קמ" (assembly, construction, erection, establishment, foundation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felállítás (activate, erection, installation, line-up, mounting, pitching, set up, setting, siting). (various references) | |
Italian | succursale (agency, branch), regolarizzazione della base (cornering, facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, side cutting, side notching), presa (bite, capture, catching, clam, clamp, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, hand-grip, hold, holdfast, intake, mesh, outlet, pinch, purchase, seizing, seizure, snatch, taking, tap), preparazione della resinazione (cupping), localizzazione (localisation, localization, location), insediamento (installation, resettlement, settlement), costituzione (composition, constitution, establishment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 特設 (setting up specially, special installation), 結団 (forming into an organization, setting up a group), 棟上' (ridgepole-raising, setting up of the framework of a house). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むねあ' (ridgepole-raising, setting up of the framework of a house), けつ " (decision, determination, forming into an organization, setting up a group), とくせつ (setting up specially, special installation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ettingsay upay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | presa (acquisition, booty, chase, clutch, fang, gain, hold, nipper, prey, quarry, ravin, swag, talon, tusk), fase de preparação da recolha de resina (cupping), corte da sapata (cornering, facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, side cutting, side notching). (various references) | |
Russian | устанавливать установка (install, setting, setup, stating), сборка (assembly, confection, erection, installation, linkage, making-up, setting-up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | postavljanje (installation, lining, padding, placement, quilting, setting), pobijanje (disproof, impeachment, impugnment, rebuttal, refutation), nameštanje (laying, positioning, reduction), dizanje (elevation, heave, heaving, lift, lifting, rise, rising, uprising). (various references) | |
Spanish | instalación (induction, installation, installment, plant), fraguado (set, setting), establecimiento (establishment, foundation, founding, institution, Lido, ordinance, plant, settlement, settling, statute, works), creación (creation, endowment, foundation, making, origination), construcción (accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, building, building trade, construction, erection, making, structure), composición (compilation, composing, composite, composition, essay, make up, reconcilement, reconciliation, setting), aprestar (size), anillado de apeo (cornering, facing, laying in, notching, rounding up, side cutting, side notching), abrir los pinos (cupping). (various references) | |
Swedish | förberedelser vid kådtappning (cupping), bosättning (setting up house, settlement), bindning (binding, liaison, slurring, weave). (various references) | |
Turkish | ayarlama (adjustment, arrangement, calibration, fitting, regulation, standardization, tune up, tuning). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | монтаж (arrangement, assemblage, assembling, assembly, editing, montage, paste up, rigging). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: upsetting. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-p-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: pettings. | |
-2 letters: gunites, petting, pignuts, puniest, punties, putties, putting, setting, testing. | |
-3 letters: genips, genius, getups, gunite, ingest, inputs, instep, pignus, pignut, puisne, signet, sitten, spinet, spuing, supine, tenuis, tenuti, tinges, unites, unpegs, unstep, unties, upsent. | |
-4 letters: etuis, genip, gents, genus, getup, guest, guise, inept, input, inset, negus, neist, netts, nites, peins, penis, petit, petti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-p-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: sputtering. | |
+2 letters: guttersnipe, poussetting, spluttering, uptightness. | |
+3 letters: guttersnipes. | |
+4 letters: expostulating, guttersnipish, uptightnesses. | |
+5 letters: prestructuring, sextuplicating. | |
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