'set up' definitions:

Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: establish, set up, found, launch] [ant: abolish, get rid of]

Create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" [syn: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] [ant: break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart]

Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down]

Get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery" [syn: set up, lay out, set]

Put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" [syn: arrange, set up] [ant: disarrange]

Begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.; "set up an election"

Take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" [syn: ensnare, entrap, frame, set up]

Produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave" [syn: effect, effectuate, set up]

Set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" [syn: install, instal, put in, set up]

Place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" [syn: install, instal, set up, establish]

Arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election" [syn: rig, set up]

Erect and fasten; "pitch a tent" [syn: pitch, set up]

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put, order]

Equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship" [syn: rig, set, set up]

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" [syn: fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set]