setup
Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
Noun
- Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
- The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
- The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
- The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
- Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup. - 1993, Billboard, volume 105, number 21, page 106:
- For some stretches, Berhalter’s usual 4-3-3 setup played more as a 4-4-2, with Tim Weah pushing up alongside Wright and McKennie moving to the right side. - 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England...
- A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
- Trust me, that was a setup!
- An installer.
- You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […] - 1995 August 28,...
- The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
- A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
Synonyms: make-ready makeready
- The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
- There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.
- A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
- The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.
Origin
Etymology tree English set updeverb. English setup Deverbal from set up.
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- Misspelling of set up.