Set_up vs Found - What's the difference?
set_up | found | Related terms |
To ready something for use.
Logically order.
To cause to happen
To trap or ensnare.
Arrange for an outcome ; to tamper or rig.
To gel or harden.
To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, pp. 286-7:
To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
(sports) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
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(dated) To begin business or a scheme of life.
To profess openly; to make pretensions.
* Jonathan Swift
In a position to function; ready.
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
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To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
* Milton
Set_up is a related term of found.
As verbs the difference between set_up and found
is that set_up is to ready something for use while found is (find) or found can be to begin building or found can be to melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.As an adjective set_up
is in a position to function; ready.As a noun found is
food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.set_up
English
Verb
- We set up the sprinkler.
- Set up my CD collection.
- Even a minor change can set up new bugs.
- I've got to set up that tasty rabbit.
- The election was set up !
- Give the cement 24 hours to set up before walking on it.
- 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.
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- to set up''' in trade; to '''set up for oneself
- Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part.
Synonyms
* (to ready ): install, put in, ready, prepare, assemble, configureDerived terms
* set up shopAdjective
- Now that I'm set up , this will take moments!
Synonyms
* (In a position to function) prepared, readyfound
English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* found footage * lost and foundEtymology 2
From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.Verb
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Synonyms
* (to start organization) establishAntonyms
* (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolishReferences
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton UniversityEtymology 3
From (etyl) fondre.Verb
(en verb)- Whereof to found their engines.