setup
About 5.25 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
- noun The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
- noun A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
Trust me, that was a setup!
- noun An installer.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- verb Misspelling of set up.
Similar words
apparatus frame-up fixture set-up fashioning structure pitfall frame deployment snare
Often followed by
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Word family
setups
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