set up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make ready for use.

   “We set up the sprinkler.”

2. fiil To arrange logically.

   “Set up my CD collection.”

3. fiil To cause to happen.

   “Even a minor change can set up new bugs.”

4. fiil To trap or ensnare.

   “I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.”

5. fiil To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.

   “The election was set up!”

6. fiil To prepare or get ready.

   “Give me a minute — I'm still setting up.”

7. fiil To gel or harden.

   “Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.”

8. fiil To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.

   “The level set up at the south end of the lake after a day of north winds.”

9. fiil To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.

   “Winning the lottery has set them up for life.”

10. fiil To establish someone in a business or position.

    “After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.”

11. fiil To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.

    “They claimed that they weren't selling drugs, but that they'd been set up by the police.”

12. fiil To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

    “M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set her up for the day.”

13. fiil To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
14. fiil To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

    “Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.”

15. fiil To begin business or a scheme of life.

    “to set up in trade; to set up for oneself”

16. fiil To profess openly; to make pretensions.

    “1744 (first printed) Jonathan Swift, On the Testimony of Conscience those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part”

17. fiil To found; to start (a business, scheme)

    “With the help of his wife Bilquis, he set up a maternal health clinic and a centre for abandoned children.”

18. fiil To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.

    “When you make an opening you merely cause an opponent to uncover a target somewhere on his person. But when you set up an opponent, you knock him off balance with one punch so that he should be an open target for a following punch. Unless he's knocked off balance, he's not set up.”

19. fiil To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.

    “Edmund had enjoyed a good gallop over the downs, setting up the sandpipers[.]”

20. fiil Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
21. sıfat In a position to function; ready.

    “Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!”