Setup

English

Noun

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.

3. An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody.

   Trust me, that was a setup!

4. (computing) An installer.

   After inserting the disk, run the setup.

Synonyms

• (equipment): apparatus
• (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged): configuration

Thesaurus

anatomy, approach, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, array, assemblage, assembly, attack, blueprint, blueprinting, breeze, build, building, buildup, calculation, charting, cinch, combination, composition, compound, conception, concord, conformation, constitution, construction, contrivance, creation, deployment, design, device, disposal, disposition, duck, easy target, easy thing, embodiment, enterprise, envisagement, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, figuring, foresight, forethought, forging, form, format, formation, frame, frame-up, game, getup, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmony, idea, incorporation, intention, junction, layout, lineup, long-range plan, make, makeup, making, manufacture, mapping, marshaling, master plan, method, methodology, mixture, mold, molding, operations research, order, organic structure, organism, organization, packed deal, packed jury, pattern, patterning, peace, physique, picnic, pie, piece of cake, piecing together, pipe, plan, planning, planning function, plotting, prearrangement, preconcertedness, premeditation, preordering, procedure, production, program, program of action, proportion, pushover, put-up job, putting together, quiet, quietude, rationalization, regularity, rigged jury, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scheming, shape, shaping, sinecure, sitting duck, snap, stacked deck, strategic plan, strategy, structure, structuring, symmetry, syneresis, synthesis, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, tectonics, texture, the big picture, the picture, tissue, tranquillity, uniformity, velvet, warp and woof, way, weave, web, working plan

Etymology

set + up

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕt'ŭp'

Translations

Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus

Estonian: seaded

Finnish: laitteisto (fi)

The fashion in which something is organized or arranged

Estonian: seadistus

Finnish: järjestely (fi)

An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody

Estonian: lavastus (et)

Finnish: lavastus (fi)

Related terms

• set up, the adjective and verb

Anagrams

• stupe
• upset