set up
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(verb) get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment" |
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Synonyms: lay out |
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Related Words: gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up |
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(verb) begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election" |
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Related Words: devise, get up, organize, prepare |
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(satellite adjective) well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up" |
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(verb) make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war" |
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Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set |
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Related Words: alter, brace, change, crop, cultivate, fix, lay out, mount, poise, precondition, prime, set up, socialize, summerize, winterize, work |
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(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" |
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Synonyms: arrange, order, put |
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Related Words: contemporize, synchronize |
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(verb) put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the flowers in the vase" |
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Synonyms: arrange |
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Related Words: alphabetize, array, bundle, cascade, catenate, catenulate, compact, coordinate, corral, decorate, distribute, drape, dress, heap, lay, lay out, line up, marshal, order, organise, organize, pack, pile, place, plume, pose, pose, position, preen, put, pyramid, range, rearrange, regularize, serialize, set, set, set out, settle, spread out, stack, stagger, straighten, stratify, string, string out, thread, tuck, wad |
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(verb) erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" |
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Synonyms: pitch |
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Related Words: erect, rear |
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(verb) set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" |
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Synonyms: establish, found, launch |
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Related Words: open, open up |
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(verb) arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; of elections |
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Synonyms: rig |
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Related Words: cheat |
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(verb) equip with sails, masts, etc.; of ships |
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Synonyms: rig, set |
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Related Words: equip, fit, fit out, outfit |
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(verb) place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" |
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Synonyms: establish, instal, install |
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(verb) set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" |
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Synonyms: instal, install, put in |
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Related Words: lay, place, pose, position, post, put, put up, reinstall, set |
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(verb) cause to happen or occur; "The scientists set up a shockwave" |
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Synonyms: bring about, effect, effectuate |
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Related Words: accomplish, carry out, carry through, cause, do, draw, execute, fulfil, fulfill, get, hasten, induce, make, precipitate, rush, serve, stimulate |
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(verb) make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt" |
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Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together |
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Related Words: bring together, comfit, compound, confect, confection, configure, confuse, create, join, jumble, make, mix up, reassemble, rig up |
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(verb) construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" |
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Synonyms: erect, put up, raise, rear |
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Related Words: build, construct, make |
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(verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocnet man was framed by the police" |
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Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, frame |
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Related Words: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on |
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