Setup

Definition: Setup

Setup

Noun

1. Equipment designed to serve a specific function.

2. (informal) the way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here".

3. An act that incriminates someone on a false charge.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "setup" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1937. (references)

Computing

Fine Arts

Mining

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Synonyms: Setup

Crosswords: Setup

Abby, the girl on the beach was a setup. They do things like that, in case the other enticements don't work (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

They call it a setup, now. I guess the blind people don't like being associated with all those losers (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Perfect Setup (1936)

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Books

• Computer Office Setup That Really Works!: Computerization for Business (reference)

• Today's Video: Equipment, Setup, and Production (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Guitar Shop: Setup & Maintenance (reference)

• How to Setup and Take Down an Ultralight Trike Wing - For Powered Hang Gliding (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Setup (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Oak Park S0430 Brass Setup Bars (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Manometer Board Setup in Supersonic Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA.

Interior View of Schlieren Setup. Credit: NASA.

Reconnaissance setup to see over mesquite brush Reconnaissance party of Charles Schanck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Setup in marshy land Traverse party of G. C. Mattison. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Vern Burns determining rough azimuth prior to Wild T-4 setup Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Electronics setup for Radio Acoustic Ranging shore station Navigation station for the GUIDE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Microwave navigation instrument setup on dolphin. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking up to microwave navigation instrument setup on Delaware Bay Lighthouse Party off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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.

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Business

Among the 29 projects are the setup of biotech venture capital firms; the promotion of state-run enterprise involvement in the biotech industry; the increase of subsidies for biotech investment projects; and the enhancement of R&D at laboratories focusing on the development of new medicines. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

Training and administrative setup began in 1999, and implementation began in December 2000, with oral trials in 2 of the 13 political regions. (references)

Trade

India

An existing company can setup a unit in a SEZ without incorporating a separate new company for this purpose. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "setup": camera setup ♦ chevron setup ♦ classroom setup ♦ herringbone setup ♦ schoolroom perpendicular setup ♦ schoolroom setup ♦ schoolroom V setup ♦ setup time ♦ studio setup ♦ theatre setup. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏نظام (arrangement, array, bylaw, cosmos, discipline, framework, limitation, measure, method, order, orderliness, organism, organization, prescript, rank, regulation, shape, system), ‏دسيسة (intrigue, machination, plot). (various references)

Chinese 

设定, 體系 (system). (various references)

Czech

situace (ball game, conditions, situation, state of affairs), dispozice (bent, disposal, disposition, layout), aranžmá. (various references)

Danish

indstilling (adjusting, fit, fitting, setting). (various references)

Dutch

instelling (adjustment, establishment, institution). (various references)

Farsi 

نصب کردن (Fix, Mount, Pitch, Stick, Uprear), وضع بدن , وضع (Aspect, Behavior, Deduction, Demeanour, Gesture, Imposition, Lie, Mien, Ordonnance, Phase, Poise, Pose, Position, Posture, Self, Situation, Speed, Stance, Station, Status, Stick, Trim), واگذاشتن , ترتیب (Collocation, Configuration, Discipline, Layout, Management, Ordonnance, Rank, Regularity, Run, Scheme, Sequence, Train). (various references)

Finnish

asetustyö, asetus (decree, statute, statutory regulation). (various references)

French

système, piège, organisation, montage (set-up), mise en place (camera setup, studio setup), machination, installation, coup monté. (various references)

German

zubehör (accessories, accessory, attachments, equipment, fittings, fixtures, gadgetry, garniture, paraphernalia, pertinents, set up, supplies), umstände (background, bother, circumstances, fuss, instances, set up, trouble), organisation (administration, association, engineering, organization, set up), Installation (fitting, fittings, installation, installing, plumbing), geräte (apparatuses, devices, gadgetry, hardware, set up, tackles, units, utensils), Einrichtung (accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aiming, appointments, arrangement, constitution, contrivance, equipment, equipping, establishment, facility, fitting out, fittings, furnishing, furnishings, incorporation, installation, institution, location, organization, scheme, setting, setting up), drum und dran (paraphernalia, set up), Aufbau (building, composition, construction, get up, organization, structure, superstruction, top), apparat (apparatus, appliance, camera, contraption, device, Dong, equipment, gadget, gadgets, machine, machinery, radio, razor, set, set up, telephone, whopper). (various references)

Greek 

κατακόρυφη διάταξη τραπεζιών με καρέκλες εκατέρωθεν (schoolroom perpendicular setup, union-style seating), χρόνος εγκατάστασης (setting-up period, setup time), αμφιθεατρική διάταξη (auditorium style, theatre setup, theatre style), ομαδική αποκατάσταση (en-bloc setup), διάταξη σε σχήμα V (chevron setup, herringbone setup, schoolroom V setup, V-shape setup), διάταξη αίθουσας διδασκαλίας (classroom setup, schoolroom setup). (various references)

Hebrew 

משחק מכור, מבנה (building, design, fabric, format, formation, frame, set, structure, texture, type), תסדיר (format, layout), צורת ארגון. (various references)

Hungarian

berendezés (accommodation, apparatus, appliance, appointments, arrangement, arresting device, contrivance, decoder, device, disposition, equipment, facilities, fitment, furnishing, furniture, installation, machinery, organization, plant, pulling device, retarder, rigging, set, setting-up, tackle). (various references)

Italian

predisposizione (arrangement, disposition, liability, predisposition, tendency), montaggio (assembling, assembly, cutting, editing, erection, montage, mounting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

セックス産業 (cement, manufacturer of assembled products, savory, semantic, semantics, semaphore, semicolon, semiconductor, semi-double bed, seminar, semiprofessional, semi-tight skirt, sepia, session, set, set position, setting, setting lotion, seven, Seven-Eleven, sex industry, shoulder length hair, three-quarter bed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

セットアップ . (various references)

Korean 

체제. (various references)

Pig Latin

etupsay.(various references)

Portuguese

preparação (benefication, brewing, confection, inurement, lead up, prep, provision). (various references)

Russian 

устанавливать установка (install, setting, setting up, stating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stav (attitude, movement, paragraph, pose, posture, stance, stand), veoma lak posao, uređenje (arrangement, organization), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, trick, trumpery), nameštaljka, lažirana utakmica, držanje (attitude, bearing, carriage, hold, holding, manner, mien, observance, occupancy, pose, posture). (various references)

Spanish

situación (dwelling, emergency, find, locality, location, pass, picture, plight, position, posture, site, situation, state of affairs, station), tinglado (intrigue, platform, plot, shed), porte (bearing, carriage, cartage, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, mien, poise, portage, porterage, postage), plan (arrangement, contrivance, deliberation, design, diagram, dispositions, layout, map, plan, scheme), organizar (arrange, array, be organized, catalog, catalogue, categorize, do organized, drum up, get organized, get up, give, host, light, line up, live up, make organized, organise, organize, put together, stage, tell off), organización (company, establishment, machinery, organism, organization, outfit, shaping), maquinación (machination, scheme), establecer (base, enter into, erect, establish, establishes, form, found, identify, institute, justify, lay down, locate, nail down, naturalize, put up, raise, set, set down, set up, settle, substantiate, take up), disposición (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, arrangement, capability, decree, deposition, disposal, disposition, fitness, gift, layout, order, ordinance, provision, ready, suitability, talent), combate (bout, cobat, combat, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, passage of arms, struggle). (various references)

Swedish

system (order, plan, scheme, system, tract), struktur (architecture, build, conformation, constitution, contexture, economy, fabric, fiber, fibre, frame, framework, structure, texture), uppsättning (battery, collection, equipment, installation, kit, line, nest, production, putting up, set, suit, suite), uppgjord match, organisation (economy, organization, set-up), datorberedning, byggnad (architecture, build, building, buildings, construction, edifice, erection, structure), anording (arrangement, preparation). (various references)

Thai

การจัดการ (arrangement, management, settlement). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "setup": setups. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Setup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estop, es-tu, etup, ketupa, Satipo, Satu, sentul, seto, Setsuo, settop, setu, setun, seut, shtup, situ, situp, sterup, stup, stupp, Titup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: stupe, upset.

-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.

+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.