Setup vs Adjust - What's the difference?
setup | adjust |
Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody.
(computing) An installer.
(operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
To modify.
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
As verbs the difference between setup and adjust
is that setup is while adjust is to modify.As a noun setup
is equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.setup
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Alternative forms
* set-upNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia setup)- The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
- The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
- Trust me, that was a setup !
- After inserting the disk, run the setup .
- A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
Synonyms
* (equipment) apparatus * (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged) configurationVerb
(head)Anagrams
* *adjust
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Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}