Verb

To ready something for use.

We set up the sprinkler.

Logically order.

Set up my CD collection.

To cause to happen

Even a minor change can set up new bugs.

To trap or ensnare.

I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.

Arrange for an outcome ; to tamper or rig.

The election was set up !

To gel or harden.

Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.

To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 286-7:

M. Robespierre looked at me sideways and smiled and said to Madame, ‘You're a young lady after my own heart.’ This set' her ' up for the day.

To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.

(sports) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=John Sinnott , title=Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Just past the hour Agbonlahor set up the second, crossing for Bent to net.}}

(dated) To begin business or a scheme of life.

to set up''' in trade; to '''set up for oneself

To profess openly; to make pretensions.

* Jonathan Swift

Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.

Verb

(lb) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

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(lb) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

(lb) To establish a basis for (something).

(lb) To form by combining materials or parts.

(lb) To develop in magnitude or extent.