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

(es)

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

*

To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

* , (w) 6:18

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=4 citation , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}

To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.