Set Up

  

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Set Up

Definition: Set Up

Set Up

Adjective

1. Well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up".

Verb

1. 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.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Set Up

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Set Up

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Set Up

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Set Up

English words defined with "set up": activated, Alepole, Alestake, annuity, Arearbarricade, board, bowling pin, bring about, buttcamp, camp down, cartel, channel, charity, Christmas tree, collective, combine, communication channel, configure, constitute, constituted, corporate, corporate trust, counterclaimdigeffect, effectuate, Embronze, ensnare, entrap, Erecting shop, establish, established, excavationFermentation theory of disease, field coil, field winding, food bank, found, framegameboard, goalpost, grammar schoolincorporated, instal, install, instituteJury of matronslaunch, lightning rod, line, Live matterman, market cross, marketplace, mart, Militant Tendencyobservation station, oppositepack, Parapegm, pavis, pavise, piece, pin, Pin pool, plant, pop tent, post, put inrandomised, randomized, rente, roadblock, Rood loftsampler, sampling station, Set-off, shock, stake, Stook, straw mantarget, To set up, To stack arms, trustWaterboard, Wike, Windrow. (references)
Etymologies containing "set up": Paradigm. (references)

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Modern Usage: Set Up

DomainUsage

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)

Movie/TV Titles

How to Set Up a Session and an E-Meter (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Set Up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Circles of Care: How to Set Up Quality Home Care for Our Elders (reference)

  • INSPIRED 3D CHARACTER SET UP (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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Photo Album: Set Up

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Set Up".

PlayCaption
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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Set Up

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Set Up

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Set Up

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Set Up

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Set Up

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Set Up

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Sentiments 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

1913-1921We 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Set Up

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Set Up

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

e mail set up

121

budget set up

26

email set up

95

set up box

23

set up a web site

90

account e mail set up

22

set up a home network

75

lan set up

21

merchant account set up

72

salt water aquarium set up

20

set up email address

69

free web site set up

19

the set up

62

fish tank set up

18

set up network

55

resume set up

18

easy set up pool

53

set up a home wireless network

18

set up a web page

49

aquarium saltwater set up

18

home theater set up

41

inc set up

18

set up a vpn

36

server set up

18

address e mail set up

36

account set up

17

aquarium set up

35

set up corporation

16

email account set up

34

classroom set up

16

set up a wireless network

33

ftp set up

16

account hotmail set up

33

router set up

16

cam set up web

32

set up ftp server

16

backgammon set up

28

set up my own web site

15

set up a web server

27

set up a business

15
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Modern Translation: Set Up

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), (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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Set Up

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Bible Trace: Set Up

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 8, Verse 23
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintPro tou aiwnoV eqemeliwsen me en arch
Latin405VulgateAb aeterno ordita sum et ex antiquis antequam terra fieret
Middle English1395WyclifOf the euere lastende I am ordeyned; and of the olde, er the erthe shulde be maad.
Jacobean English1611King JamesI was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Victorian English1833WebsterI was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Basic English1964OgdenFrom eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Set Up

LanguageProverbs Chapter 8, Verse 23
CebuanoAko gipahamutang sa itaas gikan pa sa walay katapusan sukad sa sinugdan, Sa wala pa ang yuta.
Croatianoblikovana sam još od vjeènosti, odiskona, prije nastanka zemlje.
Danishjeg blev frembragt i Evigheden, i Begyndelsen, i Jordens tidligste Tider;
DutchIk ben van eeuwigheid af gezalfd geweest; van den aanvang, van de oudheden der aarde aan.
FinnishIankaikkisuudesta minä olen asetettu olemaan, alusta asti, hamasta maan ikiajoista.
FrenchJ`ai été établie depuis l`éternité, Dès le commencement, avant l`origine de la terre.
GermanIch bin eingesetzt von Ewigkeit, von Anfang, vor der Erde.
HungarianÖrök idõktõl fogva felkenettem, kezdettõl, a föld kezdetétõl fogva.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariAku dibentuk sejak permulaan zaman, pada mulanya, sebelum bumi diciptakan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBahwa aku telah dilantik dari selama-lamanya, yaitu dahulu dari pada bumi ini jadi.
ItalianDall'eternit sono stata costituita, fin dal principio, dagli inizi della terra.
MaoriNonamata riro ahau i whakaritea ai, no te timatanga, no mua atu i te whenua.
NorwegianFra evighet er jeg blitt til, fra først av, før jorden var.
PortugueseDesde a eternidade fui constituída, desde o princípio, antes de existir a terra.   
RumanianEu am fost awezatq din vecinicie, knainte de orice knceput, knainte de a fi pqmkntul.
RussianПФ ЧЕЛБ С ПНБЪБОБ, ПФ ОБЮБМБ, ТЕЦ"Е 'ЩФЙС ЪЕНМЙ.
SpanishDesde la eternidad tuve el principado, desde el principio, antes que la tierra.
SwedishFrån evighet är jag insatt, från begynnelsen, ända ifrån jordens urtidsdagar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Set Up

Misspellings

"Set Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: set pu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Set Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: setup, stupe, upset.

Words within the letters "e-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: pest, pets, puts, sept, spue, step, suet, supe, tups.

-2 letters: pes, pet, pus, put, set, sue, sup, tup, ups, use, uts.

-3 letters: es, et, pe, up, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: erupts, getups, letups, purest, putzes, septum, setups, stupes, taupes, unstep, upsent, upsets, upstep.

 

+2 letters: cuspate, deputes, dispute, impetus, imputes, metumps, outsped, pasteup, pasture, peanuts, penults, petasus, petrous, piquets, piteous, pluteus, posture, pouters, precuts, proteus, pullets, pulsate, puniest, punkest, punnets, punster, punters, punties, pupates, puppets, pustule, puttees, putters, putties, reputes, septums, spouted, spouter, spurted, spurtle, sputter, stipule, stumped, stumper, stupefy, subtype, sumpter, suspect, takeups, teacups, toupees, troupes, tuneups, tupelos, unspent, unsteps, unswept, upbeats, updates, uprates, upstage, upstare, upstate, upsteps, upswept, uptakes, uptears, uptimes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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