setup

• set-up

Deverbal from set up.

• enPR: sĕt'ŭp', IPA^(key): /ˈsɛtʌp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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setup (plural setups)

1. Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

   The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.

2. The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.

   The classroom setup was simple and efficient.

   • 1993, Billboard, volume 105, number 21, page 106:

     Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup.

   • 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer‎:

     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.

3. A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.

   Trust me, that was a setup!

4. (computing) An installer.
   • 1995 August 28, InfoWorld, page 80:

     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; […]

5. (operations) The process 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.

6. (hydrology) 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.

7. (boxing) 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.

• (equipment): apparatus, loadout
• (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged): configuration, layout
• (situation orchestrated to frame someone): frameup, stitch-up

• set up, the adjective and verb

setup

1. Misspelling of set up.

• TUPEs, Tse-p'u, puets, spute, stupe, upset

From Dutch stoven, from Middle Dutch stoven. Compare to Afrikaans stoof.

• IPA^(key): [səˈtʊp]
• Hyphenation: sê‧tup

sêtup

1. (cook) the cooking of simmering.

• setop

• “setup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.