set up

How to sign: set up or found
"She set up a literacy program";

Similiar / Same: establish, found, launch

Categories: open, open up

set up

How to sign: put into a proper or systematic order
"arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order";

Similiar / Same: arrange

Categories: lay, place, pose, position, put, set

Within this category: alphabetize, cascade, catenate, chain, concord, corral, drape, drape, dress, gradate, line up, marshal, order, order, organize, pack, pair, preen, pyramid, range, rearrange, regularize, serialize, set, settle, stack, stack, stagger, straighten, stratify, string, string, string out

set up

How to sign: set up for use
"install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink";

Similiar / Same: install, instal, put in

Categories: lay, place, pose, position, put, set

Within this category: post, reinstall, retrofit

set up

How to sign: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
"Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill";

Similiar / Same: prepare, gear up, ready, set, fix

Categories: alter, change, modify

Within this category: brace, cram, cultivate, fix, mount, precondition, prime, provide, set up, socialize, summerize, winterize

set up

How to sign: construct, build, or erect
"Raise a barn";

Similiar / Same: erect, put up, rear, raise

Categories: build, construct, make

set up

How to sign: equip with sails, masts, etc.
"rig a ship";

Similiar / Same: rig, set

Categories: equip, fit, fit out, outfit

setup

How to sign: equipment designed to serve a specific function

Similiar / Same: apparatus

Categories: equipment

Within this category: aerator, burner, cascade liquefier, centrifuge, chemical reactor, cloud chamber, condenser, duplicator, electrograph, generator, heat pump, heliograph, incubator, instillator, Kipp's apparatus, lighting, nuclear reactor, optical bench, pendulum, purifier, reformer, semaphore, sequencer, soda fountain, still, submersible, telegraph, titrator, X-ray machine

set up

How to sign: take or catch as if in a snare or trap
"I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police";

Similiar / Same: ensnare, entrap, frame

Categories: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on

set up

How to sign: produce
"The scientists set up a shockwave";

Similiar / Same: effect, effectuate, bring about

Categories: cause, do, make

Within this category: carry through, draw, induce, precipitate, serve

set up

How to sign: arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
"rig an election";

Similiar / Same: rig

Categories: cheat, chisel